Protestant Buddhism?

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The adoption of Buddhist religious forms by English people does not entail such a radical break with western structures and influences as has often been envisaged. Individuals may take personal decisions to become Buddhists, but Christian discourses and forms of life continue to have an observable influence on English Buddhism. The significance of the person is a useful point at which to begin assessing these continuities between English Buddhism and other cultural trends. Such continuities pose theoretical and methodological questions concerning the approach to Buddhism in religious studies. In studying its development in England ‘Buddhism’ becomes a problematic category for the analyst, rather than a label for a readily identifiable phenomenon of eastern origin which has merely been transferred into a western context.

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