Mauro Peressini

Choosing Buddhism

The Life Stories of Eight Canadians

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Why has there been an upsurge in Canadians converting to Buddhism in recent decades and what does it mean to lead a Buddhist life in contemporary Canada? This book answers these questions and more athrough life stories richly complemented by images and contextual readings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
• Seitenzahl: 446
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 170mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 930g
• ISBN-13: 9780776623313
• ISBN-10: 0776623311
• Artikelnr.: 43673191

Autorenporträt

Mauro Peressini is Curator of Social History at the Canadian Museum of History and holds a PhD in social and cultural anthropology from the Université de Montréal. Dr. Peressini's work has long focussed on questions relating to immigration and on the construction of identities that underpin the decision to emigrate and immigrants' lives in Canada. More recently, he has been focussing on religious identities. In both instances, the biographical approach (life stories) has been his principal research method. In addition to authoring numerous publications, Dr. Peressini has curated a number of major exhibitions for the Museum, including Presenza - A New Look at Italian-Canadian Heritage (2003), Pompeii (2005), The Greeks (2008) and Vodou (2012).