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{"title":"Addressing Sexual Violence in Mennonite Communities: The Case of John Howard Yoder","authors":"Laura Roberts","doi":"10.1353/bcs.2021.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bcs.2021.0012","url":null,"abstract":"abstract :This article names the fact of long-standing sexual violence in Mennonite communities and examines the case of renowned Mennonite theologian and ethicist John Howard Yoder, whose serial sexual violence became widely known in 2015. I first sketch briefly Yoder's sexual abuse and Mennonite institutional responses to victim– survivors and to Yoder himself. While focus on so prominent a figure can obscure the trauma suffered by the many, many victim–survivors of other perpetrators, such a public reckoning can also help to break the silence and motivate visible institutional change. The second part of the article considers the ways in which the inadequacy of the tradition's theology of nonviolence and commitment to communal discernment and accountability contributed to the failure to respond to victims and to bring Yoder to justice. At the same time, I argue both of these long-standing commitments also present potential resources for Mennonite responses to sexual violence. The theology and practice of nonviolence must be recast and expanded to attend to power dynamics and abuses internal to the community. Such a trauma-informed peace theology can ground and direct more adequate response to sexualized violence. In the same way, communal discernment and accountability can be a resource if recast in light of the needs of victim–survivors—for example, by addressing power differentials, the limits of traditional reconciliation approaches based on Matthew 18, and the need to report abuse to outside agencies.","PeriodicalId":41170,"journal":{"name":"Buddhist-Christian Studies","volume":"352 1","pages":"87 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78110907","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 Utility of the Convert/Natal Lens in the Study of Theravāda Buddhist Organizations in California","authors":"Natalie Fisk Quli","doi":"10.1353/bcs.2021.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bcs.2021.0010","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:In this study of four Theravādin organizations in California, I explore the utility of the natal/convert binary construct in describing these organizations and their participants. In addition to the critiques of the model of two Buddhisms available in the literature (e.g., Hickey 2010; Han 2017), I note that conversions across Buddhist sectarian boundaries also challenge the binary. Although I note the benefit of this model in bringing to attention non-Theravāda elements brought by converts, my research demonstrates that the diversity in Asian American-led Theravāda temples in terms of temple participants' ethnic and religious backgrounds, openness to non-Theravāda elements, temple activities, orientation toward meditation practice, and missionary outreach to converts, seekers, and samplers is masked by the umbrella term \"natal,\" which homogenizes these groups.","PeriodicalId":41170,"journal":{"name":"Buddhist-Christian Studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"59 - 67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81544600","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":"Natal and Convert Buddhism and Mindfulness","authors":"C. Medine","doi":"10.1353/bcs.2021.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bcs.2021.0009","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Natal and convert practices of Buddhism and Christianity raise questions of authenticity. As second and third generations of children of American converts to Buddhism enter the practice, what constitutes natal Buddhism becomes complexified, and natal immigrants from places like Taiwan, as Carolyn Chen writes, often move away from Buddhism as a way of becoming Americanized. This paper examines these complexities using Mary Louise Pratt's concept of the \"contact zone,\" in which cultures meet, and often collide, generating new forms, though in asymmetrical power relations. I, then, turn to mindfulness as a cultural practice in America. Mindfulness has become an industry in the United States. I argue that mindfulness may be an example of orientalist appropriation, and turn to the Buddha's teaching on mindfulness and a Franciscan Christian mode of mindfulness in contemplation. Recognizing the inevitable borrowing that occurs when cultures meet, this paper raises more questions than it gives answers, thinking through the effects on natal practitioners of convert borrowing and also through forms of mindfulness and what they offer convert practitioners in the multiple ways that modern American choose to belong, from dual belonging to borrowing.","PeriodicalId":41170,"journal":{"name":"Buddhist-Christian Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":"33 - 58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87604570","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":"Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us About Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom ed. by Pamela Ayo Yetunde and Cheryl Giles, and: Buddhist-Christian Dialogue, U.S. Law, and Womanist Theology for Transgender Spiritual Care by Pamela Ayo Yetunde (review)","authors":"C. Medine","doi":"10.1353/bcs.2021.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bcs.2021.0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41170,"journal":{"name":"Buddhist-Christian Studies","volume":"90 1","pages":"327 - 337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80455024","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":"Public Statement in Solidarity with Persons of Asian and Pacific Island Descent: Executive Committee of the SBCS","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/bcs.2021.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bcs.2021.0027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41170,"journal":{"name":"Buddhist-Christian Studies","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82659288","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 Nonviolence and Pacifism in Christian and Buddhist Ethics Obligatory or Supererogatory?","authors":"L. K. Neigenfind","doi":"10.1353/bcs.2020.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bcs.2020.0021","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:It is well documented and widely recognized that both Buddhism and Christianity have common themes of nonviolence, pacifism, and peace found throughout their teachings. In the beginning, the adherents of these two faiths consistently held to a strong form of pacifism and nonviolence. Yet as time progressed and the religions continued in their development, nonviolence and pacifism ceased to be normative practices for Christians and Buddhists. Although in our modern context the core teachings have remained consistent, on a practical level, many adherents of both religions do not hold to pacifism and the concepts of nonviolence. This article intends to examine the concepts of nonviolence and pacifism in Buddhism and Christianity, through viewing their respective theological, philosophical, and historical traditions, and then decipher how central and necessary these concepts are to the authentic practice of their faiths. In other words, the paper intends to answer the question, \"Are the teachings of nonviolence and pacifism obligatory or supererogatory in Buddhism and Christianity?\" After coming to a conclusion about the nature of the ethics of nonviolence and pacifism in both faith traditions, it intends to then ascertain what the implications are for the religions and their followers and to express how the concept of pacifism and nonviolence should create common ground in religious dialogue between the two faiths. The hope is that this dialogue and commonality could promote beneficial societal change.","PeriodicalId":41170,"journal":{"name":"Buddhist-Christian Studies","volume":"45 1","pages":"387 - 401"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87553501","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":"Dwelling at the Heart of Holiness: Locating the Buddha-Land and the Place of God","authors":"Dr. Stephanie Cloete","doi":"10.1353/bcs.2020.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bcs.2020.0011","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:The relationship between vision and holy place is explored in this paper with particular reference to the development of human potential through spiritual practice. Some of the obstacles that impede such development are considered, and a comparison between a Buddhist and a Christian approach is here presented. It draws on material found in the early Buddhist work by Upatissa Thera, the Vimuttimagga as it is frequently titled, and the writings of the Christian Evagrius of Pontus, one of the Desert Fathers. In both an analysis is to be found of certain characteristics, passions, or emotions, which condition human behavior, resulting in patterns of interfacing with the world that may not be conducive to receptivity to spiritual \"sight.\" These having been \"diagnosed,\" remedies are suggested. Practical methods are given for the cultivation of opposing traits, virtues in some Christian terminology, and for working to free the mind and heart from unhelpful conditioning. Common ground is manifest both in the recognition of certain problems encountered by those undertaking a spiritual path and in the solutions offered. The way can be opened up for the radiant light of the mind to function unobscured. The nature of this change in consciousness and its outcome as regards accessibility to holy space within the Buddhist and Christian imaginaires is also investigated. At this point there is divergence as final goals do differ in important ways. However, evidence suggests that within both the Buddhist and Christian traditions, a connection between internal and external experience of awakening to sacred space has been acknowledged. In conclusion, the potential usefulness of such perception and those who cultivate it is highlighted.","PeriodicalId":41170,"journal":{"name":"Buddhist-Christian Studies","volume":"201 1","pages":"201 - 216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76004934","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":"Editor's Introduction","authors":"C. Anderson, Thomas Cattoi","doi":"10.1353/bcs.2020.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bcs.2020.0000","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41170,"journal":{"name":"Buddhist-Christian Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"vii - x"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76143776","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":"A Muslim's Reflections on Saddharamapundariksutra—The Lotus Sutra","authors":"Imtiyaz Yusuf","doi":"10.1353/bcs.2020.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bcs.2020.0005","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This paper seeks to introduce the general reader to the history of Muslim–Buddhist dialogue, reviewing early instances of interreligious conversation between the two traditions, while also offering a speculative reflection on the Lotus Sutra from an Islamic perspective and highlighting some points of contact between the spirituality of this Buddhist text and the overarching transformative vision of the Qur'an. The author questions the conventional understanding that Islam effectively ignores all religions apart from Judaism and Christianity, noting, for instance, that according to Muhammad Assad, the term kafir—ordinarily translated as \"infidel\"—actually refers to anyone rejecting spiritual truth, and as such it could not be automatically applied to anyone outside the three Abrahamic traditions. The author also surveys a number of early studies of Buddhism written from an Islamic perspective, such as the work by Abd al-Karim al-Shahrastani (1086–1153 CE), concluding with a striking quote by the mystic Rumi (1207–1273), who claimed that the path to the Mecca and the path to the Buddhist monastery were one and the same. The first section of the paper concludes with the observation that contemporary Islamic scholarship on Buddhism is almost exclusively based on Western sources and on a Western understanding of the religion, while failing to engage original Buddhist texts or to develop a fully Islamic perspective.In the second section of the paper, the author discusses the Lotus Sutra as a source for wisdom that can be fruitfully read by Muslim scholars and practitioners alike. Relying on the classical Qur'anic notion that all nations received prophets before the coming of Muhammad, the author views the sutra as a channel of divine wisdom, highlighting the parallelism between certain claims of the Mahāyāna tradition—such as the belief in the Buddha nature—and some lesser-known Islamic traditions, such as the belief in the light of Mohammed (nur-Muhammad). The author expresses the hope that Islamic–Buddhist dialogue will foster greater interreligious understanding, while underscoring that he does not espouse a perennialist or pluralist theology of religions.","PeriodicalId":41170,"journal":{"name":"Buddhist-Christian Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"104 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89327008","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":"Emperor, Empress, and the Divine in San Vitale and the Binyang Central Cave","authors":"Junhyoung Michael Shin","doi":"10.1353/bcs.2020.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bcs.2020.0020","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This essay compares historically unrelated religiopolitical iconographic programs executed in Byzantine Empire and Northern Wei China of the sixth century, and points out the common mechanism, through which these two cultures made use of religious imagery to promote imperial authority. They deployed different religious topoi befitting their respective Orthodox Christian and Buddhist-Confucian statecrafts, but arrived at surprisingly similar visual experiences. The key to the visual tactic employed in both sites, I would argue, lies in the trinity and multiplicity of the divine. The apse of San Vitale in Ravenna, completed in the years 547, suggests a double parallelism between Emperor Justinian and Christ that is further mirrored in the relationship between Christ and God the Father. The Binyang Central Cave in Longmen, completed in 523, implies a parallelism between Emperor Xuanwu's succession to his late father, Emperor Xiaowen, and the successive salvific endeavors of the Buddhas of the Three Ages. The religiopolitical theories of Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea (260–340) and the Pure Land patriarch Tanluan (曇鸞, 476–542) provide significant clues to understand these similarities.","PeriodicalId":41170,"journal":{"name":"Buddhist-Christian Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":"369 - 384"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88424564","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}