Journal of Church and State, January 1st, 2002
By Richard Hughes Seager. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 314 pp. n.p.
The third title in the "Columbia Contemporary American Religion" series, Richard Hughes Seager's Buddhism in America, is an eminently readable and accessible survey of Buddhist history, tradition, and organizations in the United States. Seager does a masterful job in weaving together the stories of the three main components of American Buddhism (the "old-time" ethnics; American descendants of Japanese and Chinese immigrants; the North American "converts"; and the communities produced by the post-1965 waves of ...
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