Contemporary Buddhism
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I. Basic Journal Info

Country

United Kingdom

Journal ISSN: 14639947

Publisher: Routledge

History: 2010-2021

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Contemporary Buddhism is an international Thomson Reutersindexed journal that publishes articles on the current state and influence of Buddhism. The journal is crossdisciplinary in its outlook and in addition to Buddhist and Religious Studies approaches presents work from philosophers anthropologists psychologists sociologists historians theologians political scientists and other disciplines. Contemporary Buddhism examines the historical doctrinal literary social political developments that have formed contemporary versions of Buddhism East and West. In all this Buddhism is predicated as an inhabited and relevant actioninfluencing worldview.The interests of Contemporary Buddhism includethe meeting of Buddhism with western culture the current selfunderstanding of different traditions of Buddhism and the relations between these traditions the relations of Buddhism to other world religious traditions both in mutual appreciation and in conflict Buddhism in application within societies Western and Asian the uptake of Buddhism into other fields and disciplines spotlighting issues arising for Buddhism in the 21st century the nonpartisan representation of all schools of Buddhism the active investigation of diversity in the development of Buddhism as we see it today.