The Coming of Secular Buddhism: a Synoptic View
- Publisher:
- Journal of Global Buddhism
- Publication Type:
- Journal Article
- Citation:
- Journal of Global Buddhism, 2012, 13 pp. 109 - 126
- Issue Date:
- 2012-01
Closed Access
Filename | Description | Size | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2012000248OK.pdf | 891.08 kB |
Copyright Clearance Process
- Recently Added
- In Progress
- Closed Access
This item is closed access and not available.
Secular Buddhism is coalescing today in response to two main factors. First, it rejects the incoherence of Buddhist modernism, a protean formation that accommodates elements as far afield as ancestral Buddhism and psychotherapies claiming the Buddhist brand. Second, it absorbs the cultural influence of modern secularity in the West. Historically understood, secularity has constituted a centuries-long religious development, not a victory of "science" over "religion." Today's secularity marks a further stage in the cultural decline of "enchanted" truth-claims and the intellectual eclipse of metaphysics, especially under the aegis of phenomenology. In Buddhism as in Christianity, secularity brings forth a new humanistic approach to ethical-spiritual life and creative this-worldly practices.
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: