A great deal of Buddhist literature and scholarly writing about Buddhism of the past 150 years reflects; and indeed constructs; a historically unique modern Buddhism; even while purporting to represent ancient tradition; timeless teaching; or the "essentials" of Buddhism. This literature; Asian as well as Western; weaves together the strands of different traditions to create a novel hybrid that brings Buddhism into alignment with many of the ideologies and sensibilities of the post-Enlightenment West. In this book; David McMahan charts the development of this "Buddhist modernism." McMahan examines and analyzes a wide range of popular and scholarly writings produced by Buddhists around the globe. He focuses on ideological and imaginative encounters between Buddhism and modernity; for example in the realms of science; mythology; literature; art; psychology; and religious pluralism. He shows how certain themes cut across cultural and geographical contexts; and how this form of Buddhism has been created by multiple agents in a variety of times and places. His position is critical but empathetic: while he presents Buddhist modernism as a construction of numerous parties with varying interests; he does not reduce it to a mistake; a misrepresentation; or fabrication. Rather; he presents it as a complex historical process constituted by a variety of responses -- sometimes trivial; often profound -- to some of the most important concerns of the modern era.
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Bought book for class.By Luke F NaftzThis is a good collection of articles regarding the war. As much as I enjoy WWII history; I probably would not have bought/read this book if it was not for the fact I needed it for a World War I and World War II class.0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Karen Lillycollege book4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Interesting WWII speech book excerptsBy William Garrison Jr."The World in Flames: a World War II Sourcebook" by Frans Coetzee Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee; Oxford Univ. Press; 2011 (438 pages).At the time of this review; there was no "Look Inside" feature. Hence; following is the book's "Table of Contents"; with a few notations who the author was.1. Seeds of TurmoilMussolini and the Masses Abyssinia's Plight (by Haile Selassie) Spain's Anguish Japan's Outlook Statement at Lushan (by Chaing Kai-shek) Rape of Nanking Hossbach Memorandum Appeasement (by Neville Chamberlain Winston Churchill) France Goes to War (by Edouard Daladier)2. "Only Movement Brings Victory": Blitzkrieg Soviet-Finnish War Rethinking Armored Warfare (by Gen. Heinz Guderian) Rotterdam in Flames France's Collapse Strange Defeat A Certain Eventuality (Brit. Chiefs of Staff) De Gaulle's Appeal to France French Collaboration Occupied Poland Air Raid on Southampton London is Burning3. The Widening War A War for Freedom? (by M.K. Gandhi) Warning Signs from Japan (by Amb. Joseph Grew; 1940) Japan's Decision for War Avenging Western Imperialism Yamamoto's Strategy Attack on Pearl Harbor (by Ryunosuke Kusada) Plan Dog (by Adm. Harold Stark) Forging Allied Strategy Allied Grand Strategy Desert War Survival in North Africa (by Maj. H.P. Samwell) Germany Strikes East "The Criminal Orders" Saving Moscow (by Marshal G.K. Zhukov) Combat on the Russian Front Hitler's Obstinance4. Mobilizing For War Arsenal of Democracy (Pres. F.D. Roosevelt) Mexican-American Discrimination Factories on Rails Producing for Victory Ford's Willow Run Germany's Delayed Mobilization German Forced Labor Chicanas in the Factory Navajo Code Talkers An Anthropologist Gathers Intelligence Photo Intelligence The Role of Science5. The Tide Turns: June-December 1942 The Mood in America Rommel Reflects on the Desert War Breakthrough at El Alamein Eisenhower Reflects on Operation Torch Stalingrad: The Rat's War Admiral Ugaki Reflects on Midway The Strain of Jungle Warfare Winning the Solomons Why Japan Lost Guadalcanal6. The European Theater Bombing Ploesti Flying a B-17 Area Bombing Massacre by Bombing U-Boat Peril (by Germ. Cmdr. Herbert Werner) Germany's U-Boat Strategy The Fall of Mussolini The Polish Resistance Greece at War Yugoslavia's Partisans Siege of Leningrad Panzer Warfare in the East Soviet Tactical Doctrine Battle of Kursk Eisenhower and Overlord D-Day Ernie Pyle's War7. The Asian Theater Bataan Death March "Vinegar Joe" and China (by Gen. Joseph Stilwell) The British Army in Burma (by Viscount William Slim) Japanese Operations in Burma (by Cpt. Shosaku Kameyama) Marxism and Burmese Resistance The Indian Situation Marines on Peleliu Kamikaze Attack The Decision to Use the Bomb Preparing to Invade Japan Hiroshima8. The War At Home in America The Rabbis March on Washington To Undo a Mistake (by Eleanor Roosevelt) The Internment of German-Americans Why Should We March? New World a-Coming The Zoot Suiters Discrimination against Mexican-Americans The Stocking Panic Prayer at Iwo Jima Readjusting to Family Life9. The Culture and Psychology of War The Nazi New Order The Four Freedoms The Atlantic Charter The GI's Perspective Japan and Greater East Asia (by Hideki Tojo) The Anthropology of Japanese Conduct Soldiers Under Stress Civilians Under Stress Religion in the Skies Revival of Russian Orthodoxy Christian Morality in Wartime 'Muscular Christianity' (by Reinhold Niebuhr) Gandhi and Non-Violence The New Imperatives of Education Radio on the Home front Film and Propaganda War Bonds and Mass Persuasion The Welfare State10. The Inhumanity of Man: The Holocaust Defining Genocide Euthanasia Atrocities in Kamenets-Podolsky The Youngest Victims Wannsee Conference (by Adolf Eichmann) A Polish Witness to Massacre Lidice The Warsaw Ghetto Himmler and the Final Solution (by Heinrich Himmler) The Holocaust in Greece Von Moltke's Thoughts on Resistance Treblinka11. Out of the "Dark and Deadly Valley" Nazis to the Bitter End? Liberating the Death Camps (by Edward R. Murrow) A Mother Ponders the War's End The German Problem America's Plans for Postwar Germany The Nuremberg Trials (by Judge Robert H. Jackson) Displaced Jews in Occupied Germany Japanese Biological Warfare The Tokyo War Trials American Policy for Postwar Japan Japan Adjusts to Occupation Revolution and Liberation in Indo-China Ho Chi Minh Appeals to Truman Africa Speaks (by R.H. Kakembo) "The Long Telegram" and Containment The Iron Curtain (by Winston Churchill) The American Century (by Henry Luce)12. Commemorating WWII: Confronting the Past; Writing the Future Remembering D-Day and the Boys of Pointe du Hoc (by U.S. Pres. Ronald Reagan) Germany Commemorates the Fortieth Anniversary of Defeat (by Germ. Pres. R. von Weizsaecker) The Soviet Union and the Uses of Victory The Holocaust Museum Japan and the War's Contested Memory Japan's Comfort Women Hiroshima; Culture Wars; and the Enola GayWorld War II Timeline (11 pages) World War II Bibliography (10 pages) IndexEach of the aforementioned articles is an excerpt from a speech or book by some political or military participant. Each excerpt is between approx. 500-750 words (2 pages). Before each excerpt the authors give a large paragraph in explaining the significance of the excerpt. What is really nice about the above excerpts is that; while most of us are familiar with various battles of WWII; these excerpts spoken by some notable provides us a look inside of the mind of that political or military notable. Virtually all of these excerpts gave me a fresh outlook in understanding the development of some invasion; battle; or political event -- as to "why" something happened -- rather than just noting that some event had occurred. A book well worth having.About the authors: Both Frans Coetzee and Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee have taught at Yale and George Washington Universities and earned fellowships from the ACLS; Alexander von Humboldt; Fulbright and Mellon Foundations; the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton; and the NEH. They are the authors or editors of five books and numerous articles.
