Import of Eastern religions to Europe
03 Oct 1994 12:01
From earliest times onwards. Import of African religions? Did European religions move east at the same times? Zen, other Buddhisms, Taoism, Confucianism.
- See also:
- Psychoceramics
- Religion
- Recommended:
- Michelle Goldberg, The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West
- Donald S. Lopez, Jr., The Scientific Buddha: His Short and Happy Life
- Gita Mehta, Karma Cola [Actually, this deserves more than just "recommended"; it's aristocratic scorn in a pure, crystalline state.]
- David Ulansey, Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in the Ancient World
- Washington, Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: Theosophy and the Emergence of the Western Guru
- To read:
- Philip C. Almond, The British Discovery of Buddhism
- Srinivas Aravamudan, Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language
- J. J. Clarke, The Tao of the West: Western Transformations of Taoist Thought
- Anya P. Foxen, Inhaling Spirit: Harmonialism, Orientalism, and the Western Roots of Modern Yoga
- Chris Goto-Jones, Conjuring Asia: Magic, Orientalism, and the Making of the Modern World
- Jane Naomi Iwamura, Virtual Orientalism: Asian Religions and American Popular Culture
- Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
- Robert Love, The Great Oom: The Improbable Birth of Yoga in America
- David A. Palmer and Elijah Siegler, Dream Trippers: Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Spirituality
- Julian Strubem, Global Tantra
- Lawrence Sutin, All Is Change: The Two-Thousand-Year Journey of Buddhism to the West
- Thomas A. Tweed, The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912: Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent
- Shoji Yamada, Shots in the Dark: Japan, Zen, and the West
