| Reimagining Zen in a Secular Age: Charles Taylor and Zen Buddhism in the West Contributor(s): Van Der Braak, André (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004435077 ISBN-13: 9789004435070 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $66.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Comparative Religion - Religion | Buddhism - Zen (see Also Philosophy - Zen) |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.85 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Reimagining Zen in a Secular Age Andr van der Braak offers an account of the exciting but also problematic encounter between enchanted Japanese Zen Buddhism and secular Western modernity over the past century, using Charles Taylor's magnum opus A Secular Age as an interpretative lens. As the tenuous compromises of various forms of "Zen modernism" are breaking down today, new imaginings of Zen are urgently needed that go beyond both a Romantic mystical Zen and a secular "mindfulness" Zen. As a Zen scholar-practitioner, Andr van der Braak shows that the Zen philosophy of the 13th century Zen master Dōgen offers much resources for new hermeneutical, embodied, non-instrumental and communal approaches to contemporary Zen theory and practice in the West. |
