Category: Buddhist Books
The Birth of the Sixties: When the Beats Became Hippies
Review of A Blue Hand: The Beats in India by Deborah Baker.
Evaluating Eckhart
Review of "A New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle and "The Joy of Living" by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche.
The New Buddhists
Review of Democracy’s Dharma: Religious Renaissance and Political Development in Taiwan by Richard Madsen.
We Think, Therefore We Are
Review of The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently . . . and Why, by Richard E. Nisbett.
Higher Powers
Review of Faith in the Halls of Power by D. Michael Lindsay and From Pews to Polling Places: Faith and Politics in the American Religious Mosaic edited by J. Matthew Wilson.
Rethinking Ritual
Review of Zen Ritual: Studies of Zen, Buddhist Theory in Practice, edited by Steven Heine and Dale S. Wright.
The Mind-Body Story
Review of The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine by Anne Harrington
Jack’s Blues
Review of Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On the Road (They're Not What You Think) by John Leland
The More Things Change
Review of After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion by Robert Wuthnow.
From OM to AH: The Spiritual Evolution of Allen Ginsberg
Review of Allen Ginsberg’s Buddhist Poetics by Tony Trigilio.
The Interdependence Movement
Review of Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw it Coming by Paul Hawken.