Charisma and Compassion: Cheng Yen and the Buddhist Tzu Chi Movement

A rich, engaging ethnography, Charisma and Compassion, makes a valuable contribution to the growing literature on modernist Buddhist movements and the means by which they flourish in a globalizing world. The Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Merit Society is a lay organization, which claims five mi...

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Main Author: Seager, Richard Hughes (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford Univ. Press 2010
In: Sociology of religion
Year: 2010, Volume: 71, Issue: 4, Pages: 490-491
Review of:Charisma and compassion (Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : Harvard Univ. Press, 2009) (Seager, Richard Hughes)
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