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{"title":"Vietnamese Catholics in the United States and Americanization: A Sociological and Religious Perspective","authors":"Peter C. Phan","doi":"10.1353/bcs.2023.a907580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bcs.2023.a907580","url":null,"abstract":"abstract: Taking a cue from Carilyn Chen's book about the Americanization of Taiwanese immigrant Buddhists, Getting Saved in America: Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Experience (2009), this essay narrates the process by which Vietnamese Catholics are \"Americanized.\" Compared with the Taiwanese Buddhists, Vietnamese Catholics had the advantage of being members of a global Church, were from the beginning incorporated into the American Catholic Church, thereby enjoying the many benefits that this institutional incorporation brought with it, and were cared for pastorally by their own clergy. On the other hand, because of their obligation to strict adherence to the legal structures of the Catholic Church, Vietnamese American Catholics were not free to innovate institutionally as they saw fit, as were their Buddhist counterparts. The essay ends with observations on the Americanization of Vietnamese American Buddhists.","PeriodicalId":41170,"journal":{"name":"Buddhist-Christian Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135798286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Buddhist-Christian Resources for Spiritual Care: A Scoping Review and Projection","authors":"Duane R. Bidwell","doi":"10.1353/bcs.2023.a907583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bcs.2023.a907583","url":null,"abstract":"abstract: Despite the maturing and formalizing of Buddhist-Christian studies as an academic discipline, its practical and pastoral implications are insufficiently addressed. Most of the practical literature to date addresses spiritual care, broadly conceived, within a narrow range of sources and theories. This scoping study identifies three primary resources offered to providers of spiritual care by scholars of Buddhist-Christian studies: an expanded theoretical base for assessment and interpretation, practices for caregiver formation and cultivation, and guidance for care with spiritually fluid people. Scholars of Buddhist-Christian studies could make at least four additional contributions to chaplaincy and spiritual care: a revised telos of care, attention to care as a site of spiritual practice, criteria for salutogenic spiritualities, and refined practices for interreligious and postcolonializing care. These potential contributions require the discipline to carefully consider methodological issues and broaden its range of sources.","PeriodicalId":41170,"journal":{"name":"Buddhist-Christian Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135798549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Hidden \"God\": Toward a Christian Theology of Buddhism by Peter Baekelmans (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/bcs.2023.a907584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bcs.2023.a907584","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: The Hidden \"God\": Toward a Christian Theology of Buddhism by Peter Baekelmans Leo D. Lefebure THE HIDDEN \"GOD\": TOWARD A CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY Of BUDDHISM. By Peter Baekelmans. Brooklyn, NY: Angelico Press, 2022. Peter Baekelmans is a Belgian Catholic priest and theologian, a member of the missionary Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, a longtime student of the Zen and Shingon traditions, a practitioner of Rinzai Zen and Shingon meditation, and a Shingon priest who has performed the esoteric fire ritual. He lived in Japan for many years and published one earlier book on Shingon Mysticism and another comparing Jesus and Kukai: A World of Non-Duality. He seeks to understand Buddhism in a way that will enhance his Catholic faith and practice by juxtaposing aspects of the Christian tradition with analogous features of Buddhist teaching and practice. For example, he compares the Apostle Paul's acknowledgment of the possibility of understanding God in creation to the Buddha's teaching of the Three Marks of Existence, and he sees an analogy between veneration of Mahavairocana Buddha and Christian worship of God. He likens Buddhist teaching on interconnection to Christian hope that God will be all in all, and he suggests a convergence between Theravada Buddhist practice in a world without god and Jesus' command to Mary Magdalene not to cling to him (Jn 20:17). Baekelmans is well aware of the profound diversity within Buddhism, the important differences between the Buddhist and Christian traditions, the long debate over the use of the word \"god\" with regard to Buddhism, as well as the diversity of Buddhist terms that have sometimes been translated into English as \"god.\" He cites the work of Roger Jackson and John Makransky on Buddhist theology, and he suggests that Christians can acknowledge that Buddhists have a natural knowledge of God in the teaching of Shakyamuni and also analogies to revelation in Buddhist invocation of \"other-power.\" Undeterred by the multiple challenges in this ambitious project, he surveys various Buddhist paths with regard to \"god,\" with special attention to the Shingon tradition that he knows well. For newcomers to Buddhist-Christian studies, Baekelmans provides helpful summaries of many Buddhist terms, teachings, and practices, accompanied by careful Catholic reflections on points of contact and divergence. Acknowledging that Buddhist perspectives are very different from Catholic views of a Trinitarian God who creates the universe, Baekelmans employs a phenomenological method [End Page 281] to suggest that there are more similarities than one might expect, and he argues that there is an underlying analogy between the hiddenness of the Christian God and Buddhist Dharma as transcendent and immanent realities. He proposes similarities between Shakyamuni Buddha and Jesus Christ as the embodiment of the Dharma and the incarnation of God, respectively, and as healers who seek to relieve suffering. He concludes tha","PeriodicalId":41170,"journal":{"name":"Buddhist-Christian Studies","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135798550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dhammapada: A Sacred Path toward Liberation from Harm Cycles","authors":"Jason Storbakken","doi":"10.1353/bcs.2023.a907573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bcs.2023.a907573","url":null,"abstract":"abstract: This project began as an interreligious exercise during Lent, a Christian season of increased spiritual practice. What resulted, in part, is this work, a translation and commentary on the Dhammapada (included here: the introduction and translations of three chapters with chapter commentaries). Like the Sermon on the Mount to Christians and the Bhagavad Gita to Hindus, the Dhammapada is considered the heart of Buddhist teaching. Ultimately, this work is a secondary translation or popular interpretation, akin to Thomas Merton's translations of Chuang Tzu and Coleman Bark's translations of Rumi's poetry. And rather than a scholarly translation, this work is a spiritual and devotional interpretation. Among the choices I have made in this translation include gender-inclusive and affirming language, often opting for they/ them pronouns. In chapter intros, I have included resources, brief commentary, and cultural and academic notes that have helped to shape this translation. Such influencers of this translation include Ella Baker, Kendrick Lamar, Bessel van der Kolk, Lama Rod Owens, and others. The next choice I have made, instead of translating the words dukkha and samsara to sorrow/suffering and reincarnation , respectively, I have often translated these terms to harm cycles and generational suffering . My hope is that these terms capture the original meanings while also creating expansive language to hold possibilities for new understandings within Gautama Buddha's teaching. As the translator of this text, it is important to name my twenty-first-century context, influences, and identity as a person raised mostly in the Upper Midwest of the United States and who has lived in Brooklyn, New York, for the past twenty years. This translation is filtered through the lenses of my lived experience, education, social-familial position, economic status, ethnic-cultural and gender identity (as a cis male of Scandinavian-Hutterite descent, who is identified as white ), and multiple other influences. My sources include peace studies, trauma/resilience studies, liberation theology, and more than fifteen years of experience as a spiritual teacher and minister in the Anabaptist tradition (i.e., the historic peace church) of Christianity. It is through these lived experiences that this translation emerges. And, specifically, what has emerged, at least in part, is a trauma aware, liberationist interpretation of the Dhammapada.","PeriodicalId":41170,"journal":{"name":"Buddhist-Christian Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135798555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Remarks on Getting Saved in America: Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Conversion","authors":"Carolyn Chen","doi":"10.1353/bcs.2023.a907582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bcs.2023.a907582","url":null,"abstract":"abstract: This article reflects Carolyn Chen's remarks at the Buddhist-Christian Studies panel on her book, Getting Saved in America: Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Conversion (Princeton, 2008) at the 2022 American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado. The article embeds the book's study of Taiwanese immigrant conversions to evangelical Christianity and Buddhism within larger patterns of migration, religious community, and ethnic formation in American history.","PeriodicalId":41170,"journal":{"name":"Buddhist-Christian Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135798288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Journey of The Mind: Zen Meditation and Contemplative Prayer in the Korean Buddhist and Franciscan Traditions; with Special Reference to \"Secrets on Cultivating the Mind\" (修心訣 수심결, su shim gyol ) by Pojo Chinul (知訥, 1158–1210) and \"The Journey of the Mind into God\" ( itinerarium mentis in deum ) by Bonaventure of Bagnoregio (1217–1274)","authors":"Nicholas Alan Worssam","doi":"10.1353/bcs.2023.a907569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bcs.2023.a907569","url":null,"abstract":"abstract: This essay explores the parallels in the life and teaching of the Korean Zen master Pojo Chinul (1158–1210) and the Franciscan saint and theologian Bonaventure of Bagnoregio (ca. 1217–1274). Living during the same thirteenth century but on opposite sides of the world, both men committed their lives to reforming the religious life and to attaining the experience of awakening in their respective traditions. To this end, both encouraged the study of their foundational texts, together with the earnest practice of meditation and contemplation. Both commented on the issues of a kataphatic and apophatic approach to ultimate reality, finding in the latter a fuller description (by non-description!) of the goal of the spiritual life. Controlling thoughts and developing intuitive wisdom were practices that united the two men, aiming to establish a constant awareness of the numinous moment by moment. In this way, they rejoiced in the freedom from fear bestowed by awakening to a clear vision of things as they really are in the unity of the infinite yet intimate being that undergirds all things. Ultimately, they seem to part company in the practice of devotion, with Bonaventure pointing to the love of the crucified Jesus, and yet even here, the remembrance of the name of the Buddha or the Christ was valued by both as an authentic path to the journey's goal.","PeriodicalId":41170,"journal":{"name":"Buddhist-Christian Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135798290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Laudatory Note: Carol Anderson and Thomas Cattoi","authors":"Sbcs Committee","doi":"10.1353/bcs.2023.a907588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bcs.2023.a907588","url":null,"abstract":"Laudatory Note:Carol Anderson and Thomas Cattoi SBCS Executive Committee Congratulations to Carol Anderson and Thomas Cattoi for completing their ground-breaking edited work, The Routledge Handbook of Buddhist-Christian Studies (Routledge, 2022). It is truly a monumental contribution to the field of Buddhist-Christian studies. [End Page 277] Copyright © 2023 University of Hawai'i Press","PeriodicalId":41170,"journal":{"name":"Buddhist-Christian Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135798401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Balancing Depth and Breadth in Our Conversations: Denver 2022 SBCS Annual Meeting","authors":"Sandra Costen Kunz","doi":"10.1353/bcs.2023.a907589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bcs.2023.a907589","url":null,"abstract":"Balancing Depth and Breadth in Our Conversations:Denver 2022 SBCS Annual Meeting Sandra Costen Kunz In 2020 and 2021, due to the corona virus pandemic, the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies (SBCS) held its annual board meeting, members meeting, and paper sessions online. This year, in 2022, we were delighted to meet face-to-face again on November 18–19 in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR). Because we are an AAR \"related scholarly organization,\" all of our events were scheduled through, and publicized by, AAR's staff. President Mark Unno not only presided at the board's table but also graciously ran a video conference, primarily to accommodate board and committee members who were outside the United States or dealing with travel-prohibiting health issues. The 2020 and 2021 fully online governance meetings, led by then-president Leo Lefebure, had been well organized, well run, highly effective, and a lot of fun. But as I watched the attentive eyes around the table this year and listened to the laughter, empathetic sighs, and plans for follow-up conversations, it seemed to me that meeting in person, in some ways, more powerfully supports the society's aim to foster in-depth Buddhist-Christian dialogue and comparative studies. Mark, then vice president, had organized the 2020 and 2021 online paper sessions carefully for online audiences. We were thrilled that these beautifully crafted and moderated presentations drew audiences that were amazingly broad in terms of both size and diversity. Planned as emergency extensions of the society's efforts to create, through our blog and Facebook page, safe online spaces for Buddhist-Christian dialogue and comparative studies, these sessions drew an international audience whose breadth astounded us! Conversations that had begun in these sessions could not, however, be quickly continued over a meal or coffee. In some ways, they did not appear to me to spark the same depth of ongoing conversation that the SBCS has prompted in our four decades of face-to-face meetings. As the board continues to discuss how to balance our desires for both depth and breadth of conversation among our board, our members, and nonmembers who attend our events, we sincerely welcome the wisdom of members and other readers. You can submit suggestions to: https://www.society-buddhist-christian-studies.org/contact. [End Page 263] board of governors meeting President's Opening Remarks Calling this year's board meeting to order a little past 9 a.m., Mark Unno said that he sensed that his father, Taitetsu Unno, \"is with us, encouraging and congratulating the society on how far we've come in the past forty years.\" He recalled his father's participation in the Cobb–Abe dialogues and the network that evolved into the SBCS, and that these initial conversations were often highly theological—and testy—and often involved a translator. Mark is convinced, however, that this early debate was a necessary foun","PeriodicalId":41170,"journal":{"name":"Buddhist-Christian Studies","volume":"2015 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135798545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"What Is so Amazing about All This?\": Buddhist Criticism of Christianity in Sixteenth-/Seventeenth-Century Japan","authors":"Mirja Dorothee Lange","doi":"10.1353/bcs.2023.a907577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bcs.2023.a907577","url":null,"abstract":"abstract: The first Christian missionaries arrived in Japan in the middle of the sixteenth century. They missionized quite a number of Japanese people but also angered many through their disrespectful behavior and destruction of temples and shrines. Less than 100 years later, Japan closed its borders, persecuted Christians, and banned Christianity in total. The reasons for this drastic step weren't solely political but also theological. Theological arguments concerning theism, eschatology, ethics, and theology of religion are found in official edicts, in \"disputes\" between Christian missionaries and Buddhist scholars, as well as in theological treatise. One of the reoccurring arguments against Christianity includes the description of the arrogant behavior of the missionaries. According to the documents, they displayed an attitude of knowing everything concerning the world next to the ignorant Buddhists. This exclusivist mindset wasn't compatible with the order of Japan and the three teachings. In the eyes of the authorities, this doctrine secured peace and ensured domestic stability. Especially the Japanese and former Christian Fabian Fucan, as well as the Buddhist monk Suzuki Shōsan, adduce various Buddhist, Confucian, and Daoist teachings against the charge of ignorance. Conversely, Fucan's writing, as well as the edicts, records of religious \"disputes,\" and other treatises, include the accusation that Christianity does not contain any new doctrine advancing the local one. Moreover, it is stated that Christian salvation exclusivism suggests a powerless God, and the missionaries were described as hypocrites and liars, as they did not keep their commandments.","PeriodicalId":41170,"journal":{"name":"Buddhist-Christian Studies","volume":"217 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135798551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Is Whiteheadian Process Thought Compatible with Early Buddhist Philosophy?","authors":"Eric M. Nyberg","doi":"10.1353/bcs.2023.a907579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bcs.2023.a907579","url":null,"abstract":"abstract: Numerous authors have compared Process thought as articulated by Alfred North Whitehead and Mahayana Buddhist philosophy, owing to the fact that each of these systems is rooted in the notion that relational action, rather than substance, is meta-physically fundamental and that human life is to be understood as fundamentally experiential. However, despite the fact that the foundational philosophical tenets of Mahayana Buddhism are built on axioms established and rooted in early Buddhism, relatively little has been written comparing Process thought with the philosophy of early Buddhism. In this essay, I first offer a brief comparison and discussion of the foundational metaphysical principles of these systems. The purpose of this essay is to extend the dialogue between Process thought and early Buddhism, highlighting both areas of convergence and points of departure. The first task is to establish how key terms in each system may be understood in terms of the other and to point out ways in which these systems converge around questions of ontology, agency, and the nature of the self. I will then discuss the epistemologies that underwrite these meta-physical commitments. Finally, I will conclude with a brief comparison of the role of aesthetics in human experience and the soteriological project within these two schools of thought.","PeriodicalId":41170,"journal":{"name":"Buddhist-Christian Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135798542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}