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NEW BOOK> Selected Works of D. T. Suzuki, Volume 3, Comparative Religion
by Richard Jaffe
Selected Works of D.T. Suzuki, Volume
III, Comparative Religion.Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (Author), Richard M. Jaffe (Series Editor),Jeff Wilson (Editor), Tomoe Moriya (Editor)Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2016. ISBN 9780520269170. $49.95.
Dear H-Buddhism Subcribers,
I am
pleased to announce the publication of Volume 3 of the Selected Works of D. T.
Suzuki, Comparative Religion, edited by Tomoe Moriya and Jeffrey Wilson,
published by the University of California Press. This third volume of Selected
Works of D. T. Suzuki brings together a diverse collection of
Suzuki’s letters, essays, and lectures about non-Buddhist religions and his
thoughts on their relation to Buddhism, as well as his reflections on the
nature of religion itself. Some of these writings have been translated into
English for the first time in this volume, for example, three chapters of Suzuki's first book, Shin
shūkyō ron 新宗教論 (A
New Interpretation of Religion; 1896). As
a long-term resident of the United States, a world traveler, and a voracious consumer
of information about all forms of religion, Suzuki was one of the foremost
Japanese mediators of Eastern and Western religious cultures for nearly seven
decades. An introduction by Jeff Wilson and Tomoe Moriya analyzes Suzuki’s
frequent encounters with texts and practitioners of many religions, considers
how events in Suzuki’s lifetime affected his interpretations of Christianity,
Shinto, and other traditions, and demonstrates that his legacy as a scholar
extends well beyond Buddhism.
Richard M. Jaffe
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Member-Bass Society of Fellows (Duke)
Department of Religious Studies
Duke University
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