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Article: Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West: Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Columbian Exposition.(Book Review)
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- March 22, 2005
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Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West: Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Columbian Exposition. By Judith Snodgrass. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. 351. $21.50.)
A political historian once compared the work of intellectual historians to nailing jelly to a wall. Judith Snodgrass tries her hand at nailing some jelly in Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West, a book that shows just how perilous this undertaking can be.
Snodgrass employs her considerable erudition to illuminate the intellectual force fields that converged around a single event: a series of presentations by Japanese Buddhists at the World Parliament of ...