the quest for cosmopolitan modernity Rocha, Cristina. creator text bibliography History. Electronic books. hiu 2006 monographic eng 1 online resource (xii, 256 pages) : illustrations. 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. 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. Cristina Rocha. Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-248) and index. s-bl--- a-ja--- Zen Buddhism Brazil History Japanese Brazil Religion Zen Buddhism Japan History Zen-Buddhismus Japaner Brasilien Zen-Buddhismus Japanese Religion Zen Buddhism Brazil Japan RELIGION / Comparative Religion BQ9262.9.B6 R63 2006eb 294.3/9270981 BE 8509 Rocha, Cristina. (DLC) 2005027457 (OCoLC)61703935 9780824865665 (electronic bk.) 0824865669 (electronic bk.) http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=750660 http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0519/2005027457.html http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=750660 http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0519/2005027457.html N$T 140407 20200709060115.0 ocn875895300 eng