Buddhism in the United States: an Ethnographic Study
International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage January 24, 2020 Jaeyeon Choe, John McNally
This paper focuses on Buddhism in America, an neglected area of inquiry in anthropological study. There is a need for modern ethnographic studies to shed light on historical issues, paradigms for comparative inquiry, and thus, explore the impact of Buddhism on modern American society (Glazier, 1997). The enormous growth of Buddhism in the last quarter century (Smith, 2002) makes this an...