Virtual Orientalism: Asian Religions and American Popular by Jane Iwamura PDF

By Jane Iwamura

Saffron-robed priests and long-haired experts became common characters at the American pop culture scene. Jane Iwamura examines the modern fascination with japanese spirituality and gives a cultural heritage of the illustration of Asian religions in American mass media. Encounters with priests, specialists, bhikkhus, sages, sifus, healers, and masters from a large choice of ethnic backgrounds and non secular traditions supplied preliminary engagements with Asian non secular traditions. digital Orientalism indicates the evolution of those interactions, from direct engagements with particular participants to mediated kinfolk with a conventionalized icon: the Oriental Monk. Visually and psychically compelling, the Oriental Monk turns into for american citizens a ''figure of translation''--a handy image for substitute spiritualities and modes of being. throughout the determine of the solitary Monk, who generously and purposefully stocks his knowledge with the West, Asian religiosity is made manageable-psychologically, socially, and politically--for pop culture intake. Iwamura's insightful research exhibits that even though renowned engagement with Asian religions within the usa has elevated, the truth that a lot of this has taken digital shape makes stereotypical structures of "the non secular East" stubborn and particularly tricky to challenge.

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