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American JewBu

Jews, Buddhists, and Religious Change

Emily Sigalow

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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Judentum

Beschreibung

A revealing look at the Jewish American encounter with Buddhism

Today, many Jewish Americans are embracing a dual religious identity, practicing Buddhism while also staying connected to their Jewish roots. This book tells the story of Judaism's encounter with Buddhism in the United States, showing how it has given rise to new contemplative forms within American Judaism—and shaped the way Americans understand and practice Buddhism.

Taking readers from the nineteenth century to today, Emily Sigalow traces the history of these two traditions in America and explains how they came together. She argues that the distinctive social position of American Jews led them to their unique engagement with Buddhism, and describes how they incorporate aspects of both Judaism and Buddhism into their everyday lives. Drawing on a wealth of original in-depth interviews conducted across the nation, Sigalow explores how Jewish American Buddhists experience their dual religious identities. She reveals how Jewish Buddhists confound prevailing expectations of minority religions in America. Rather than simply adapting to the majority religion, Jews and Buddhists have borrowed and integrated elements from each other, and in doing so they have left an enduring mark on the American consciousness.

American JewBu highlights the leading role that American Jews have played in the popularization of meditation and mindfulness in the United States, and the profound impact that these two venerable traditions have had on one another.

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University of California Press, Bhikkhu Bodhi, Conservative Judaism, Sharon Salzberg, Sociology, New religious movement, American Jews, Jewish peoplehood, Cambridge Zen Center, Mysticism, Jewish history, Jewish day school, Religious identity, Sri Lanka, Zen master, Meditation, Gentile, Protestantism, Interfaith dialogue, Rodger Kamenetz, Racism, Wes Nisker, Jewish studies, Religious liberalism, Spirituality, Alan Lew, Teacher, The Jew in the Lotus, San Francisco Zen Center, Rabbi, Syncretism, Surya Das, Religion, Buddhist studies, Reform Judaism, Jewish identity, Religious text, Jewish holidays, Spiritual practice, Participant observation, Buddhism in the United States, Shabbat, Jews, Jewish culture, Judaism, Modernity, Jewish meditation, Joseph Goldstein (writer), Synagogue, Theravada, Buddhism, Literature, Writing, Hebrew school, Christianity, Jack Kornfield, Vipassana, Tibetan Buddhism, Engaged Buddhism, Doctrine, Jewish prayer, Jewish Buddhist, Mentorship, Buddhist meditation, Dharma transmission, Cultural Judaism, Buddhist philosophy, Jewish Renewal, Americans, Secularization