Converging Ways? Conversion and Belonging in Buddhism and Christianity

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Converging Ways? Conversion and Belonging in Buddhism and Christianity. Edited by John D'Arcy May. Sankt Ottilien, Ger.: EOS Kloster vertag, 2007. Pp. 207. euro15.80.

Abook like this lays to rest any doubt that Buddhism has become aEuropean religion. So far is this true that a certain Eurocentricity, innocuous but ironic, here becomes proof of Buddhism's transculturation. Nary a non-European voice represents or interprets Buddhism for Europe; and so, as in North America, Buddhism proves itself remarkably adaptable and adoptable, by the cognitively inclined especially. As several authors included in the volume are themselves advocates of and for Buddhism's transculturation and …