Table of Contents

Preface
Thomas A. Tweed: General Introduction
Introduction to Asian Religions
PART I. ORIENTATIONS, 1784 TO 1840
Introduction
1. VIEWS FROM ABROAD
Amasa Delano, Narrative of Voyages and Travels (1817)
Christian Disciple, An Account of the Sikhs in India (1814)
Robert Morrison's Letter from China (1809)
Adoniram and Ann Judson, A Mission in Burma (1832)
2. VIEWS FROM HOME
Benjamin Franklin's Oriental Tale (1788)
Joseph Priestley, A Comparison of the Institutions of Moses with Those of the Hindoos and Other Ancient Nations (1799)
John Adams to Thomas Jefferson (1813-14)
William Bentley on Asian Trade in Salem (1794-1804)
Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions (1817)
Charles A. Goodrich, Religious Ceremonies and Customs (1832)
PART II. ENCOUNTERS, 1840 TO 1924
3. EAST TO AMERICA: IMMIGRANT LANDINGS
Frederick Douglass, Our Composite Nationality (1869)
Fung Chee Pang, The Confucian Sage and the Mongolian Bible (1876)
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Frederick J. Masters, Pagan Temples in San Francisco (1892)
Shuye Sonoda, Buddhism in the Kingdom of Liberty (1899)
Saint Nihal Singh, The Picturesque Immigrant From India's Coral Strand (1909)
Swami Paramananda, Christ and Oriental Ideals (1923)
United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind (1923)
4. ROMANCING THE ORIENT: LITERARY ENCOUNTERS
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Plato and Brahma (1857, 1850)
Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
Bret Harte, The Heathen Chinee (1870)
Walt Whitman, Passage to India (1870)
T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922)
5. JOURNEYS IN THE STUDY
Webster's Dictionary on Hinduism and Buddhism (1828, 1849, 1864)
Lydia Maria Francis Child, The Progress of Religious Ideas (1855)
James Freeman Clarke, Ten Great Religions (1871)
6. POSTCARDS FOR THE PEWS: MISSIONARIES AND THEIR CRITICS
M. L. Gordon, An American Missionary in Japan (1892)
Mark Twain, The United States of Lyncherdom (1901)
Myra E. Withee, Is Buddhism to Blame? (1902)
7. THE WORLD'S PARLIAMENT OF RELIGIONS
John Henry Barrows, Words of Welcome (1893)
Swami Vivekananda, Hinduism (1893)
Anagarika Dharmapala, The World's Debt to Buddha (1893)
Soyen Shaku, Reply to a Christian Critic (1896)
8. TURNING EAST: SYMPATHIZERS AND CONVERTS
Henry Steel Olcott, Old Diary Leaves and the Buddist Catechism (1900, 1881)
Sister Christine, Memories of Swami Vivekananda (1945)
Paul Carus, The Dharma (1898)
Marie de Souza Canavarro, Insight into the Far East (1925)
William Sturgis Bigelow to Kwanryo Naobayashi (1895)
PART III. EXCLUSION, 1924 to 1965
Introduction
9. CLOSED PORTS AND OPEN CAMPS
Asian Exclusion Act (1924)
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order No. 9066 (1942)
Nyogen Senzaki, Like a Dream, Like a Fantasy (1978)
Shigeo Kikuchi, Memoirs of a Buddhist Woman Missionary in Hawaii (1991)
Julius Goldwater, Wartime Buddhist Liturgy (1940s)
10. HINDU CROSSINGS: GURUS AND DISCIPLES
Krishnalal Shridharani, Hindus are Human Beings (1941)
Swami Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)
Krishnamurti, The Turning Point (1975)
John Yale, What Vendanta Means to me (1960)
11. BUDDHIST CROSSINGS: MASTERS AND STUDENTS
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, What is Zen? (1959)
Dwight Goddard, Followers of Buddha: An American Brotherhood (1934)
Jack Kerouac, Dharma Bums (1958)
Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Zen: A Method for Religious Awakening (1959)
Elson B. Snow, Entry into the Dharma Gate (1994)
12. ARTISTS, PREACHERS, AND MISSIONARIES
E. Stanley Jones, The Christ of the Indian Road (1925)
Mersene Sloan, The Indian Menace (1929)
Howard and Sue Bailey Thurman Meet Mahatma Gandhi (1936)
John Cage, Lecture on Nothing (1949)
PART IV. PASSAGES, 1965 TO THE PRESENT
Introduction
13. COUNTERCULTURAL APPROPRIATIONS
Alan Watts, Beginning a Counterculture (1972)
Timothy Leary, The Buddha as Drop-Out (1968)
Ram Dass, The Only Dance There Is (1974)
14. ASIAN INDIAN GURUS, CONVERTS, AND MOVEMENTS
A TM Catechism (1975)
The Beatles and A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Pradhupada, Search for Liberation (1981)
Yogi Bhajan, Awakening the Mind to Prayer (1984)
Margaret Simpson, An Experience of Siddha Yoga Meditation (1991)
Swami Satchidananda, Integral Yoga (1996)
Elsie Cowan, Sai Baba and the Resurrection of Walter Cowan (1976)
15. BUDDHIST TEACHERS, CONVERTS, MOVEMENTS
Shunryu Suzuki, Posture (1970)
Chogyam Trungpa, Meditation in Action (1969)
Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness (1975)
An Interview with Roshi Jiyu Kennett (1986)
Women, Buddhism, and Vipassana Meditation (1991)
bell hooks, Waking Up to Racism (1994)
Jacci Thompson-Dodd, Soka Gakkai and the Power of Chanting (1996)
Bernard Glassman and Rick Fields, Recipes for Social Change (1996)
16. INDIAN IMMIGRANTS: HINDU, JAIN, AND SIKH
Anand Mohan, The Pilgrimage (1994)
Rituals at Sri Venkateswara Temple (1995)
Sri Ganesha Temple, Nashville, Recounting History and Nuturing Youth (1985-95)
Hinduism in the Public Realm: Hinduism Today on Christianity and Cloning (1996)
Jain Society of Metropolitan Chicago, An Ancient Heritage and a Promising Future (1993)
Sikh Religious Society, Things That Make You Ask "Kion?" (1994)
17. BUDDHIST IMMIGRANTS
The Buddha's Birthday in a Vietnamese-American Temple (1986)
The Dalai Lama Meets the Buddhist Sangha Council of Southern California (1989)
Dharma Vijaya Buddhist Vihara's Tenth Anniverary (1990
Later Generations of Japanese Americans on Jodo Shinshu (1990)
Thai Youth Club, DJ or Not We're Still Upset (1994)
Hsi Lai Temple, Buddhism Coming to the West (1997)
18. ASIAN RELIGIONS IN AMERICAN CULTURE
Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do (1975)
Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh (1982)
Gary Synder, Smokey the Bear Sutra (1969)
An Interview with Composer Philip Glass (1991)
The Beastie Boys, Bodhisattva Vow (1994)
Children Respond to Little Buddha (1994)
Phil Jackson, If You Meet the Buddha in the Lane, Feed Him the Ball (1995)
Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife (1991)
19. INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE
Thomas Merton, Letter from Asia (1968)
Masao Abe and John Cobb, Buddhist-Christian Dialogue (1981)
Rodger Kamenetz, The Jew in the Lotus (1994)
The Parliament of the World's Religions Centennial (1993)
Walter Martin, The Kingdom of the Cults (1985)
20. MAPPING LEGAL BOUNDARIES: RELIGION AND STATE
Justice William Douglas, Asian Religions According to the Supreme Court (1965)
U. S. Supreme Court, Even Buddhist Prisoners Have Rights (1972)
Chief Justice William Rehnquist, The Krishna Religion (1992)
Sikh Kirpans in Public Schools (1994)
A Vietnamese Home Temple Zoning Dispute (1996)
Chronology
Further Reading
Index

Reviews

"Excellent treatment of the Asian religious experience in America. Covers a breadth of views and opinions and offers a book one can leaf through and read at random or structure an Asian Humanities or American Religious Diversity class from." --Greg Wise, St. Leo University, Gainesville
"This is a unique and original way to introduce the Asian religions and their manifestation in America. The useful introductions and the variety of voices give it a character not often found in other presentations."--S. Wesley Ariarajah, Drew University School of Theology
"This book is a real treasure. Its strength is the freshness of material gathered together for the first time in a single place. I would definitely adopt it for my course on Religion in Multicultural America. I also think it will have a readership quite beyond classroom use, because much of the material is just good, interesting reading."--Diana L. Eck, Harvard University
"My overall reaction is unmitigated enthusiasm. Tweed and Prothero have done an excellent and judicious job of putting together a rich and well-chosen set of documents that reveal the diverse and complex history and character of Asian religions in America."--Peter N. Gregory, University of Illinois
"The skillful selection and editing of the documents, the useful overviews at the beginning of each section, and the informative introductions to each section should make the work an attractive choice for courses in American religion, Asian and world religions, and the Asian religions in America."--Carl T. Jackson, University of Texas, El Paso
"An excellent collection of necessary documents for understanding the Americanization of Asian religions. At the very least it should be in every library."--Nathan Kollar, St. John Fisher College
"An outstanding collection of sources for an expanding area of American religious history."--Lawrence Roast, Concordia Theological Seminary
"A unique and very helpful addition to the resources available for the course in American religious history. Also, it might inspire the creation of a new course on Asian religion in U.S. society."--Charles Hambrick-Stone, Lancaster Theological Seminary
"Very useful and long overdue."--Dianne Ashton, Rowan University
"Marvelous range of coverage both historical and literary. Succinct introductions, helpful appendices, and just the right number of photographs to enhance the textual offerings. A truly fine book."--Vivian-Lee Nyitray, University of California-Riverside
"A thorough, scholarly assessment of the subject, presented in a balanced and even-handed manner."--Grayson Carter, Methodist College, NC
"A wonderful anthology--and most useful in my Introduction to Asian Religions course."--William R. Goodman, Lynchburg College
"From beginning to end, Tweed and Prothero have put together a most engaging and insightful map of the shifting landscape 'of the American encounter with the religious traditions of Asia' (xiii)... This superb resource for clarifying our current context should find its way into courses in world/Asian religions, religion in America, and mission and global Christianity in universities, seminaries, and congregations. It should be in libraries, generally, whether
academic, congregational, or community."Missiology: An International Review