Buddhism and Ireland - From the Celts to the Counter-Culture and Beyond - Laurence Cox
Buddhism in Ireland: An Introduction to the Problem
Buddhism and Ireland - From the Celts to the Counter-Culture and Beyond - Laurence Cox
Laurence Cox [+]
National University of Ireland
Laurence Cox is Director of the MA in Community Education, Equality and Social Activism at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He is co-editor of Ireland’s New Religious Movements (CSP, 2011), Understanding European Movements (Routledge, 2013) and Marxism and Social Movements (Brill, 2013), and a practising Buddhist.
Description
This chapter introduces the aim of the book and highlights some features of Irish culture and society which are particularly significant for the development of Buddhism; it also raises broader theoretical and methodological issues for the study of Buddhism in the west.