Mindful America: The Mutual Transformation of Buddhist Meditation and American Culture
Abstract
Introduction: Waking Up in Mindful America 1. Mediating Mindfulness: How Does Mindfulness Reach America? 2. Mystifying Mindfulness: How is Mindfulness Made Available for Appropriation? 3. Medicalizing Mindfulness: How is Mindfulness Modified to Fit a Scientific and Therapeutic Culture? 4. Mainstreaming Mindfulness: How is Mindfulness Adapted to Middle-Class Needs? 5. Marketing Mindfulness: How is Mindfulness Turned into a Commercial Product? 6. Moralizing Mindfulness: How is Mindfulness Related to Values and Worldviews? Postscript: Making Sense of Mindfulness Bibliography Notes Index
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Associating Buddhist mindfulness with resilience has been widely regarded as a particularly western modern reinterpretation of Buddhism.
“Associating Buddhist mindfulness with resilience has been widely regarded as a particularly western modern reinterpretation of Buddhism (Samuel 2015; Sharf 2015; Wilson 2014; Gleig 2019).”
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- Venue
- Choice Reviews Online
- Publisher
- American Library Association
- Published
- 2015-01-21
- Volume
- 52
- Issue
- 06
- Pages
- 52-3056-52-3056
- ISSN
- 0009-4978 (ISSN-L)
- 1523-8253
- OpenAlex
- W1185561439
- Cited by
- 196
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- book review
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Choice Reviews Online (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Indian and Buddhist Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
- Keywords
- mindfulness, Buddhist meditation, American culture, cultural appropriation, medicalization, commodification, moralization, middle class, therapeutic culture
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