Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
About the Book Series
Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism is a comprehensive study of the Buddhist tradition. The series explores this complex and extensive tradition from a variety of perspectives, using a range of different methodologies. The series is diverse in its focus, including historical, philological, cultural, and sociological investigations into the manifold features and expressions of Buddhism worldwide. It also presents works of constructive and reflective analysis, including the role of Buddhist thought and scholarship in a contemporary, critical context and in the light of current social issues. The series is expansive and imaginative in scope, spanning more than two and a half millennia of Buddhist history. It is receptive to all research works that are of significance and interest to the broader field of Buddhist Studies.
Some of the titles in the series are published in association with the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, which conducts and promotes rigorous teaching and research into all forms of the Buddhist tradition.
Editorial Advisory Board:
James A. Benn, McMaster University, Canada
Rupert Gethin, University of Bristol, UK
Peter Harvey, University of Sunderland, UK
Sallie King, James Madison University, USA
Anne Klein, Rice University, USA
Lori Meeks, University of Southern California, USA;
Ulrich Pagel, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK
John Powers, Australian National University, Australia;
Juliane Schober, Arizona State University, USA
Vesna A. Wallace, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Michael Zimmermann, University of Hamburg, Germany
In Defense of Dharma: Just-War Ideology in Buddhist Sri Lanka
1st Edition
By Tessa J. Bartholomeusz
October 18, 2002
This is the first book to examine war and violence in Sri Lanka through the lens of cross-cultural studies on just-war tradition and theory. In a study that is textual, historical and anthropological, it is argued that the ongoing Sinhala-Tamil conflict is in actual practice often justified by a ...
Religious Motivation and the Origins of Buddhism: A Social-Psychological Exploration of the Origins of a World Religion
1st Edition
By Torkel Brekke
October 18, 2002
Why did people in North India from the 5th century BC choose to leave the world and join the sect of the Buddha? This is the first book to apply the insights of social psychology in order to understand the religious motivation of the people who constituted the early Buddhist community. It also ...
The Resonance of Emptiness: A Buddhist Inspiration for Contemporary Psychotherapy
1st Edition
By Gay Watson
September 13, 2002
This work presents an exploration of Buddhist philosophy and practice as a potential resource for an approach to psychotherapy which is responsive to the needs of its time and context, and attempts to open up a three-way dialogue between Buddhism, psychotherapy and contemporary discourse to reveal ...
Innovative Buddhist Women: Swimming Against the Stream
1st Edition
By Karma Lekshe Tsomo
July 25, 2000
Combines the voices of scholars and practitioners in analysing Buddhist women's history. 26 articles document the lives of women who have set in motion changes within Buddhist societies, with analyses of issues such as gender, ethnicity, authority, and class that affect the lives of women in ...
Contemporary Buddhist Ethics
1st Edition
By Damien Keown
June 22, 2000
This innovative volume brings together the views of leading scholars on a range of controversial subjects including human rights, animal rights, ecology, abortion, euthanasia, and contemporary business practice....
Early Buddhism: A New Approach: The I of the Beholder
1st Edition
By Sue Hamilton-Blyth
May 16, 2000
New interpretations of the central teachings of early Buddhism, mainly the relationship between identity and perception in early Buddhism....
Buddhist Theology: Critical Reflections by Contemporary Buddhist Scholars
1st Edition
Edited
By Roger Jackson, John Makransky
November 05, 1999
Scholars of Buddhism, themselves Buddhist, here seek to apply the critical tools of the academy to reassess the truth and transformative value of their tradition in its relevance to the contemporary world....
American Buddhism: Methods and Findings in Recent Scholarship
1st Edition
By Christopher Queen, Duncan Ryuken Williams
August 05, 1999
This is the first scholarly treatment of the emergence of American Buddhist Studies as a significant research field. Until now, few investigators have turned their attention to the interpretive challenge posed by the presence of all the traditional lineages of Asian Buddhism in a consciously ...
The Sound of Liberating Truth: Buddhist-Christian Dialogues in Honor of Frederick J. Streng
1st Edition
By Paul Ingram, Sallie B. King
July 20, 1999
Offers essays and dialogues by well-known Buddhist and Christian scholars on topics that were of primary interest to Frederick J. Streng, in whose honour the volume was created. Topics include interreligious dialogue, ultimate reality, nature and ecology, social and political issues of liberation, ...