Recently added articles from Buddhist-Christian Studies:
Dependent co-origination and universal intersubjectivity.
Jan 01, 2007; Bracken, Joseph A. ... Two essays in a recent issue of Buddhist-Christian Studies dealt with the topic "Buddhist and Christian Views of Community." The first essay, by Rita Gross, was a careful analysis of the way in which the separation of home and workplace in contemporary Western society has tended to reduce ...
The understanding and experience of compassion: Aquinas and the Dalai Lama.
Jan 01, 2007; Barad, Judith ... His Holiness the fourteenth Dalai Lama writes that the essence of Mahayana Buddhism is compassion. (1) Although most people recognize compassion as one of the most admirable virtues, it is not easy to find discussions of it by Christian theologians. Instead, Christian theologians tend to ...
Buddhist women and interfaith work in the United States.
Jan 01, 2007; Dugan, Kate ... Women from a wide array of backgrounds and interest areas continue to shape the face of Buddhism in the United States--from women who encountered Buddhism during the women's movement in the 1960s to ordained women founding temples for large immigrant populations; from women carving out a ...
Dialogue and solidarity in a time of globalization *.
Jan 01, 2007; Fredericks, James ... LOS ANGELES AS A GLOBAL RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY Forty-two years ago, standing at the base of the Statue of Liberty, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, ushering in sweeping changes in the immigration policy of the United States ....
Mahayana interpretation of Christianity: a case study of Zhang Chunyi (1871-1955).(Case study)
Jan 01, 2007; Lai, Pan-chiu ... Mahayana Buddhism is one of the most popular religions in East Asia. It reflects the characteristics of the culture of East Asia and has had a tremendous impact on the culture(s) of the region. When Christianity was introduced into East Asia, it did not enter a religious vacuum. Because ...
Christian-Buddhist dialogue on loving the enemy.(Report)
Jan 01, 2007; Polinska, Wioleta ... We are taught to think that we need a foreign enemy. Governments work hard to get us to be afraid and to hate so we will rally behind them. If we do not have an enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us. Yet they are also victims. (1)--Thich Nhat Hanh We are called to ...
Buddhist-Christian scholarship and the World Wide Web.(ESSAYS)
Jan 01, 2007; Barciauskas, Jonas ... The Internet and the World Wide Web have had an enormous effect on academic scholarship by transforming the way scholars conduct research and publish its results. But for some, the ease of access to information offered by the Web is more than offset by the difficulty of identifying which ...
The individual in relation to the Sangha in American Buddhism: an examination of "privatized religion".(ESSAYS)
Jan 01, 2007; Tanaka, Kenneth K. ... In his celebrated book Bowling Alone (2000), Robert Putnam noted the increased level in the phenomenon of "privatized religion" within the previous thirty-five years. Many of the Baby Boomer generation left churches in the late 1960s and the 1970s. Some sought out new religious movements ...
Message to Buddhists for the feast of Vesakh 2007: Christians and Buddhists: educating communities to live in harmony and peace.(NEWS AND VIEWS)(Viewpoint essay)
Jan 01, 2007; Poupard, Paul ... Dear Buddhist Friends, 1. On the occasion of the festival of Vesakh, I am writing to Buddhist communities in different parts of the world to convey my own good wishes, as well as those of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. 2. We, Catholics and ...
The 2006 meeting of the society for Buddhist-Christian studies: Washington, DC, November 17-18, 2006.(NEWS AND VIEWS)
Jan 01, 2007; Adeney, Frances S. ... The theme of this year's meeting was "Religious Self-Fashioning and the Role of Community in Contemporary Buddhist and Christian Practice." The first session presented participants with three papers. The first compared Christian and Buddhist groups that fostered community and long-term ...
In memoriam: Benjamin Lee Wren (1931-2006).(Loyola University of New Orleans)(Obituary)
Jan 01, 2007; Huff, Peter A. ... Almost a year after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated his beloved New Orleans, Benjamin Wren, longtime member of the history department at Loyola University-New Orleans, died on July 20, 2006. Wren joined the Loyola faculty in 1970 and taught popular courses in Chinese history, ...
In memoriam: Masao Abe (1915-2006).(Obituary)
Jan 01, 2007; Fredericks, James ... Professor Masao Abe, a pioneer in the international dialogue among Christians and Buddhists, died in Kyoto, Japan, on September 10, 2006. He was 91 years old. Professor Abe was given a quiet funeral service reserved to family and close friends, according to sources in Kyoto. ...
Religion after September 11th World Congress: Montreal, Quebec, September 11-15, 2006.(NEWS AND VIEWS)(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2007; Adeney, Frances S. ... This global conference, organized by Professor Arvind Sharma and a team of international scholars, began on the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in 2001. Conference themes stressed the commonalities among religions ...
Buddhist and catholic monks talk about celibacy.(NEWS AND VIEWS)
Jan 01, 2007; Ryan, Thomas ... The electronic sign at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport was flashing "Orange Alert" as a dozen Buddhist monks arrived in their burnt orange robes from around the country for three days of dialogue on celibacy with a similar number of Catholic monastics come together from various ...
Zen/Ch'an Catholic dialogue opens new quadrennium.(NEWS AND VIEWS)
Jan 01, 2007; Tiso, Francis V. ... The first in a second quadrennium of dialogues between Catholics and Buddhists on the West Coast was held at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, Ukiah, California, on the topic "Abiding in Christ, Taking Refuge in the Buddha." The January 24-27, 2007, meeting was cochaired by Venerable Rev ....
The Pilgrimage of the Mass: The Song of All Songs.(Poem)
Jan 01, 2007; Corless, Roger ... <Pre> The Pilgrimage of the Mass The Song of All Songs I remember,long ago,long, long ago,the sun came up at midnight,seen by no one but myself,and my room was filled with lightand grew so huge(Vimalakirti, do you hear?)that nothing was ...
In memoriam *.(NEWS AND VIEWS)(Roger Jonathan Corless)(Obituary)
Jan 01, 2007; Wells, Harry ... ROGER JONATHAN CORLESS (1938-2007) Roger Jonathan Corless died on January 12, 2007, in San Francisco, California, from complications associated with cancer. Born in Merseyside, England, in 1938, he began studying religion at the age of sixteen, understanding himself as being ...
I Am Food: The Mass In Planetary Perspective.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Habito, Maria Reis ... I AM FOOD: THE MASS IN PLANETARY PERSPECTIVE. By Roger Corless. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2004. 104 pp. In this timely reprint of I Am Food. The Mass in Planetary Perspective (originally published by Crossroad in 1981), the late Roger Corless demonstrates the potential for ...
Conflict, Culture, Change: Engaged Buddhism In A Globalizing World.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Larson-Harris, Marwood ... CONFLICT, CULTURE, CHANGE: ENGAGED BUDDHISM IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD. By Sulak Sivaraksa. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2005. 145 pp. Sulak Sivaraksa's Conflict, Culture, Change is a useful if uneven collection of essays that touch on many of the basic aspects of Engaged Buddhism ....
Buddhist Inclusivism: Attitudes towards Religious Others.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; Muck, Terry C. ... BUDDHIST INCLUSIVISM: ATTITUDES TOWARDS RELIGIOUS OTHERS. By Kristin Beise Kiblinger. Hants, England: Ashgate, 2005. 145 pp. Kristen Beise Kiblinger, who teaches in the religion department at Thiel College, has written a provocative and imaginative book. It is provocative in ...