04430nam a2200685Ki 4500 ocn875895300 OCoLC 20200709060115.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 140407s2006 hiua ob s001 0 eng d N$T eng rda pn N$T 9780824865665 (electronic bk.) 0824865669 (electronic bk.) 082482976X 9780824829766 9789824829766 (OCoLC)875895300 750660 (N$T) s-bl--- a-ja--- BQ9262.9.B6 R63 2006eb REL 017000 bisacsh 294.3/9270981 22 BE 8509 rvk N$TA Rocha, Cristina. Zen in Brazil : the quest for cosmopolitan modernity / Cristina Rocha. Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2006] ©2006 1 online resource (xii, 256 pages) : illustrations. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Topics in contemporary Buddhism Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-248) and index. The Japanese-Brazilian junction: establishing Zen missions -- Non-Japanese Brazilians and the orientalist shaping of Zen -- The Brazilian religious field: where does Zen fit in? -- The Brazilian imaginary of Zen: global influences, rhizomatic forms -- Doing Zen, being Zen: creolizing "ethnic" and "convert" Buddhism -- Conclusion: translocal flows: the "meditodrome" as a Zen style of governing. Widely perceived as an overwhelmingly Catholic nation, Brazil has experienced in recent years a growth in the popularity of Buddhism among the urban, cosmopolitan upper classes. In the 1990s Buddhism in general and Zen in particular were adopted by national elites, the media, and popular culture as a set of humanistic values to counter the rampant violence and crime in Brazilian society. Despite national media attention, the rapidly expanding Brazilian market for Buddhist books and events, and general interest in the globalization of Buddhism, the Brazilian case has received little scholarly attention. Cristina Rocha addresses that shortcoming in Zen in Brazil. Drawing on fieldwork in Japan and Brazil, she examines Brazilian history, culture, and literature to uncover the mainly Catholic, Spiritist, and Afro-Brazilian religious matrices responsible for this particular indigenization of Buddhism. In her analysis of Japanese immigration and the adoption and creolization of the Sotoshu school of Zen Buddhism in Brazil, she offers the fascinating insight that the latter is part of a process of "cannibalizing" the modern other to become modern oneself. She shows, moreover, that in practicing Zen, the Brazilian intellectual elites from the 1950s onward have been driven by a desire to acquire and accumulate cultural capital both locally and overseas. Their consumption of Zen, Rocha contends, has been an expression of their desire to distinguish themselves from popular taste at home while at the same time associating themselves with overseas cultural elites. -- Book jacket. Description based on print version record. Zen Buddhism Brazil History. Japanese Brazil Religion. Zen Buddhism Japan History. Zen-Buddhismus. idszbz Japaner. idszbz Brasilien. idszbz Zen-Buddhismus. swd Japanese Religion. fast (OCoLC)fst00981398 Zen Buddhism. fast (OCoLC)fst01184197 Brazil. fast (OCoLC)fst01206830 Japan. fast (OCoLC)fst01204082 RELIGION / Comparative Religion bisacsh History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Electronic books. Print version: Rocha, Cristina. Zen in Brazil 082482976X (DLC) 2005027457 (OCoLC)61703935 Topics in contemporary Buddhism. EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=750660 Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0519/2005027457.html EBSCOhost EBSC 750660 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 54685 54685