Charisma and Compassion: Cheng Yen and the Buddhist Tzu Chi Movement
A rich, engaging ethnography, Charisma and Compassion, makes a valuable contribution to the growing literature on modernist Buddhist movements and the means by which they flourish in a globalizing world. The Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Merit Society is a lay organization, which claims five mi...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2010
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2010, Volume: 71, Issue: 4, Pages: 490-491 |
| Review of: | Charisma and compassion (Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : Harvard Univ. Press, 2009) (Seager, Richard Hughes)
Charisma and compassion (Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : Harvard Univ. Press, 2009) (Seager, Richard Hughes) |
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| Summary: | A rich, engaging ethnography, Charisma and Compassion, makes a valuable contribution to the growing literature on modernist Buddhist movements and the means by which they flourish in a globalizing world. The Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Merit Society is a lay organization, which claims five million members in more than 30 countries, the vast majority living in Taiwan. A form of socially engaged Buddhism, Tzu Chi, was founded by Venerable Cheng Yen, a Taiwanese nun, in 1966 to provide health care for the poor. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srq061 |