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Article: Reflections on Habits, Buddhism in America, and religious individualism.(SYMPOSIUM ON THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF HABITS OF THE HEART)
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- Sociology of Religion
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- June 22, 2007
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The twentieth anniversary of the publication of Habits of the Heart, coincidentally, coincides with the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the two Buddhist centers I write about in my book, Heartwood: The First Generation of Theravada Buddhism in America (Cadge 2005). Shortly after I was invited to speak on the 20th anniversary of Habits, the director of Cambridge Insight Meditation Center (CIMC) in Cambridge, Massachusetts--one of the two Buddhist centers I studied--asked me to speak at their twentieth anniversary party. I said yes to both invitations, though with a bit of hesitation.
My hesitation stemmed primarily, as I said to the three hundred or so ...