Edited by Robert E. Buswell Jr. and Robert M. Gimello

This collection contributes to several different areas of concern in the contemporary study of religion, e.g., the generalization of concepts rooted in the Western religious tradition, the importance of emic categories, and the relation between discursive thought and liberating experience

Robert E. Buswell, Jr. holds the Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Humanities at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he is also Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and founding director of the university's Center for Buddhist Studies and Center for Korean Studies.                

ISBN: 0824814177

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