Buddhist meditation in Britain: 1853 and 1945
Discussions about Buddhist meditation in the West usually focus on the post-1960s period and explain the popularity of meditation in a context of modernistic discourses. In this article the author suggests that meditation was in fact available in Britain much earlier than is usually assumed, in a pe...
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| Type de support: | Numérique/imprimé Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
[2015]
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Religion
Année: 2015, Volume: 45, Numéro: 4, Pages: 553-572 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Großbritannien
/ Buddhisme
/ Méditation
/ Histoire 1853-1945
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Vie religieuse BL Bouddhisme KAH Époque moderne KAJ Époque contemporaine KBF Îles britanniques |
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| Résumé: | Discussions about Buddhist meditation in the West usually focus on the post-1960s period and explain the popularity of meditation in a context of modernistic discourses. In this article the author suggests that meditation was in fact available in Britain much earlier than is usually assumed, in a period which was without doubt ‘modern,' yet which did not quickly produce mass acceptance of meditative practices in its host culture. While the migration of meditation was influenced by modernist discourses, these were sometimes contradictory to each other and hindered acceptance. The author examines how the term meditation itself has evolved, who first brought it to Britain and why, as well as the political and social forces that shaped its trajectory of acceptance and rejection in the first half of the 20th century. |
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| ISSN: | 0048-721X |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2015.1027969 |