{"id":"https://openalex.org/W615883841","doi":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.37-4453","title":"Luminous passage: the practice and study of Buddhism in America","display_name":"Luminous passage: the practice and study of Buddhism in America","publication_year":2000,"publication_date":"2000-04-01","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W615883841","doi":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.37-4453","mag":"615883841"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.5860/choice.37-4453","doi":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.37-4453","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.37-4453","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S2764375719","display_name":"Choice Reviews Online","issn_l":"0009-4978","issn":["0009-4978","1523-8253","1943-5975"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["cwts-core"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310316146","host_organization_name":"Association of College and Research Libraries","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310316146","https://openalex.org/P4310315903"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Association of College and Research Libraries","American Library Association"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Choice Reviews Online","raw_type":"journal-article"},"volume":null,"type":"book-review","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":0,"institutions_distinct_count":0,"corresponding_author_ids":[],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":null,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":81,"citation_normalized_percentile":null,"cited_by_percentile_year":null,"biblio":{"volume":"37","issue":"08","first_page":"37","last_page":"4453"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11563","display_name":"Indian and Buddhist Studies","score":0.9839000105857849,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1212","display_name":"Religious studies"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11563","display_name":"Indian and Buddhist Studies","score":0.9839000105857849,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1212","display_name":"Religious studies"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13005","display_name":"Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices","score":0.0052999998442828655,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1211","display_name":"Philosophy"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11507","display_name":"Religion and Society Interactions","score":0.0031999999191612005,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3312","display_name":"Sociology and Political Science"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/american-buddhism","display_name":"American Buddhism","score":0.9929999709129333},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/buddhist-sangha","display_name":"Buddhist sangha","score":0.7630000114440918},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/buddhist-communities","display_name":"Buddhist communities","score":0.9319999814033508},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/buddhist-practice","display_name":"Buddhist practice","score":0.5360000133514404},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/westernization-of-buddhism","display_name":"Westernization of Buddhism","score":0.9079999923706055},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/scholar-practitioners","display_name":"scholar-practitioners","score":0.9750000238418579},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/buddhist-identity","display_name":"Buddhist identity","score":0.9380000233650208},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/religion-and-ethnicity","display_name":"religion and ethnicity","score":0.6769999861717224},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/religion-and-gender","display_name":"gender and religion","score":0.6990000009536743},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/sexual-orientation","display_name":"sexual orientation","score":0.828000009059906},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/healing-professions","display_name":"healing professions","score":0.847000002861023},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/ecumenism","display_name":"ecumenism","score":0.7409999966621399},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/globalization-of-buddhism","display_name":"globalization of Buddhism","score":0.8690000176429749}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C75699723","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q748","display_name":"Buddhism","level":2,"score":0.8024939298629761},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2778521100","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q732344","display_name":"Pure land","level":3,"score":0.5088698863983154},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C95457728","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q309","display_name":"History","level":0,"score":0.4440625309944153},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C166957645","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23498","display_name":"Archaeology","level":1,"score":0.10737964510917664}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.5860/choice.37-4453","doi":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.37-4453","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.37-4453","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S2764375719","display_name":"Choice Reviews Online","issn_l":"0009-4978","issn":["0009-4978","1523-8253","1943-5975"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["cwts-core"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310316146","host_organization_name":"Association of College and Research Libraries","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310316146","https://openalex.org/P4310315903"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Association of College and Research Libraries","American Library Association"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Choice Reviews Online","raw_type":"journal-article"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[],"sustainable_development_goals_aurora":[{"display_name":"Gender equality","id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/5","score":0.7300000190734863}],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"pdf":false,"grobid_xml":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":0,"referenced_works":[],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W4389390257","https://openalex.org/W4398207487","https://openalex.org/W4252697142","https://openalex.org/W628967734","https://openalex.org/W4398207396","https://openalex.org/W1532864658","https://openalex.org/W2507668277","https://openalex.org/W4240824606","https://openalex.org/W2026112932","https://openalex.org/W1998003493"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"In":[0,101],"Luminous":[1],"Passage,":[2],"a":[3,66,128],"well-known":[4],"Buddhologist":[5],"and":[6,43,50,73,85,116,139,161,174],"longtime":[7],"observer":[8],"of":[9,21,35,53,123,144,148,176,188,196,203],"Buddhism":[10,23,111,177,189,198],"in":[11,24,40,136,178,200],"the":[12,16,32,36,51,90,96,108,120,124,141,162,172,186,191,194,201,204],"United":[13],"States":[14],"presents":[15],"first":[17,121],"comprehensive":[18],"scholarly":[19],"study":[20],"American":[22,69,98,125,179,197],"nearly":[25],"two":[26],"decades.":[27],"Charles":[28],"S.":[29],"Prebish":[30,79,106,184],"revisits":[31],"expanding":[33],"frontier":[34],"fastest":[37],"growing":[38,142],"religion":[39],"North":[41],"America":[42],"describes":[44],"its":[45,48],"historical":[46],"development,":[47],"diversity,":[49],"significance":[52],"this":[54,64],"ancient":[55],"tradition":[56],"at":[57,190],"century's":[58],"end.":[59],"More":[60],"than":[61],"anything":[62],"else,":[63],"is":[65,112],"book":[67,169],"about":[68,74],"Buddhist":[70,82,126,149,217],"communities":[71,93,218],"(sanghas)":[72],"life":[75,181],"within":[76],"those":[77],"communities.":[78],"considers":[80],"various":[81],"practices,":[83],"rituals,":[84],"liturgies,":[86],"as":[87,89],"well":[88],"ways":[91,109],"these":[92],"have":[94],"confronted":[95],"changing":[97],"spiritual":[99],"landscape.":[100],"profiling":[102],"several":[103],"different":[104],"sanghas":[105],"reveals":[107],"that":[110,130,151],"being":[113],"both":[114],"reinvented":[115],"Westernized.":[117],"He":[118],"includes":[119],"exploration":[122],"'cybersangha',":[127],"community":[129,143],"has":[131],"emerged":[132],"from":[133],"recent":[134],"developments":[135],"information-exchange":[137],"technology,":[138],"discusses":[140],"'scholar-practitioners'.":[145],"The":[146],"interactions":[147],"identities":[150],"are":[152,165],"related":[153],"to":[154],"ethnicity,":[155],"gender,":[156],"sexual":[157],"orientation,":[158],"social":[159],"engagement,":[160],"healing":[163],"professions":[164],"also":[166],"examined.":[167],"This":[168],"fully":[170],"captures":[171],"vibrancy":[173],"importance":[175],"religious":[180],"today.":[182],"Finally,":[183],"appraises":[185],"state":[187],"millennium.":[192],"Placing":[193],"development":[195],"squarely":[199],"midst":[202],"religion's":[205],"general":[206],"globalization,":[207],"he":[208],"argues":[209],"for":[210],"an":[211],"ecumenical":[212],"movement":[213],"which":[214],"will":[215],"embrace":[216],"worldwide.":[219]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2022,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2021,"cited_by_count":3},{"year":2020,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2019,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2018,"cited_by_count":3},{"year":2016,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2015,"cited_by_count":4},{"year":2014,"cited_by_count":7},{"year":2013,"cited_by_count":3},{"year":2012,"cited_by_count":10}],"updated_date":"2026-09-29T14:09:16.559479","created_date":"2016-06-24T00:00:00"}