Import of Eastern religions to Europe
03 Oct 1994 12:01From earliest times onwards. Import of African religions? Did European religions move east at the same times? Zen, other Buddhisms, Taoism, Confucianism.
- Recommended:
- Gita Mehta, Karma Cola [Actually, this deserves more than just "recommended"; it's aristocratic scorn in a pure, crystalline state.]
- Ulansey, Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries
- Washington, Madame Blavatsky's Baboon
- To read:
- Philip C. Almond, The British Discovery of Buddhism [blurb]
- Srinivas Aravamudan, Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language [blurb]
- J. J. Clarke, The Tao of the West: Western Transformations of Taoist Thought
- Thomas A. Tweed, The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912: Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent
