Zen in Brazil: The Quest for Cosmopolitan Modernity

by Cristina Rocha

Widely perceived as an overwhelmingly Catholic nation, Brazil has experienced in recent years a growth in the popularity of Buddhism among the urban, cosmopolitan upper classes. In the 1990s Buddhism in general and Zen in particular were adopted by national elites, the media, and popular culture as a set of humanistic values to counter the rampant violence and crime in Brazilian society. Despite national media attention, the rapidly expanding Brazilian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082482976X
• ISBN13: 9780824829766
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 270 Pages