Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West: Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Columbian Exposition.(Book Review) From: The Historian | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2005 Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West: Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Columbian Exposition. By Judith Snodgrass. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. 351. $21.50.)

A political historian once compared the work of intellectual historians to nailing jelly to a wall. Judith Snodgrass tries her hand at nailing some jelly in Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West, a book that shows just how perilous this undertaking can be.

Snodgrass employs her considerable erudition to illuminate the intellectual force fields that converged around a single ...

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