Buddhist Responses to Globalization

Leah Kalmanson is assistant professor of philosophy and religion at Drake University.James Mark Shields is associate professor of comparative humanities and Asian thought at Bucknell University and Japan Foundation visiting research fellow at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies.

I feel the book is a coherent study that should be welcomed by those interested in socially engaged Buddhism and globalization.

• Introduction, James Mark Shields and Leah KalmansonPart I: Globalization as Spatial, Cultural, and Economic Deterritorialization1) Squaring Freedom with Equity: Challenging the Karma of the Globalization of Choice, Peter D. Hershock2) Alice Walker, the Grand Mother, and a Buddhist-Womanist Response to Globalization, Carolyn M. Jones Medine3) Religious Change as Glocalization: The Case of Shin Buddhism in Honolulu, Ugo Dessì4) From Topos to Utopia: Critical Buddhism, Globalization, and Ideology Criticism, James MarkShieldsPart II: Normative Responses to Globalization5) An Inexhaustible Storehouse for an Insurmountable Debt: A Buddhist Reading of Reparations, Leah Kalmanson6) Engaged Buddhism and Liberation Theologies: Fierce Compassion as a Mode of Justice, Melanie L. Harris7) World, Nothing, and Globalization in Nishida and Nancy, John W. M. Krummel8) A Zen Master Meets Contemporary Feminism: Reading Dogen as a Resource for Feminist Philosophy, Erin McCarthy