Land of Beautiful Vision: Making a Buddhist Sacred Place in New Zealand

by Sally McAra

Land of Beautiful Vision is the first book-length ethnography to address the role of material culture in contemporary adaptations of Buddhism and the first to focus on convert Buddhists in New Zealand. Sally McAra takes as her subject a fascinating instance of an ongoing creative process whereby a global religion is made locally meaningful through the construction of a Buddhist sacred place. She uses an in-depth case study of a small religious...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824829964
• ISBN13: 9780824829964
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 224 Pages