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| #596587 in Books | Iwamura Jane Naomi | 2011-01-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.10 x.70 x9.20l,.75 | File Name: 0199738610 | 232 pages | Virtual Orientalism Asian Religions and American Popular Culture
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Very good.|By Sneezy777|Those of us born, circa 1954, have lived every page of this book. Our feeble understanding of cultures of the East has not been improved by our exposure to Western media interpretation. Our generation is well rebuked for the intellectual laziness and dishonesty that allows history to be replaced by hokum. This book is a rare effort to enlighten us. Well||Easily accessible, this work will interest students of American popular culture, media studies, and Asian American religiosity. Highly recommended.|--Choice
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Saffron-robed monks and long-haired gurus have become familiar characters on the American popular culture scene. Jane Iwamura examines the contemporary fascination with Eastern spirituality and provides a cultural history of the representation of Asian religions in American mass media. Encounters with monks, gurus, bhikkhus, sages, sifus, healers, and masters from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds and religious traditions provided initial engagements with Asian spiri...
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