"[Columbia University] Press continues to bring excellent scholarship to the general reader with this outstanding study of American Buddhism." -- Jana Reiss, "Publishers Weekly"
"Unbiased and insightful, "Buddhism in America" offers a view of how far the Buddhist movement has come in little more than a century and a peek at where it is going at the dawn of a new millennium." -- Don Morreale, "Tricycle"
"This book cries out for use as a textbook for classes on Buddhism in America." -- Franz Aubrey Metcalf, "The Journal of Religion"
"ÝColumbia University¨ Press continues to bring excellent scholarship to the general reader with this outstanding study of American Buddhism." -- Jana Reiss, "Publishers Weekly"
"This well-informed book provides a comprehensive survey of a variety of Buddhist traditions in the contemporary U.S.... [its] strength, apart from being a mine of information, is Seager's insistence on taking a historically informed and comparative perspective." -- Martin Baumann, "Religious Studies Review"
"This book cries out for use as a textbook for classes on Buddhism in America." -- Franz Aubrey Metcalf, The Journal of Religion
"Unbiased and insightful, Buddhism in America offers a view of how far the Buddhist movement has come in little more than a century and a peek at where it is going at the dawn of a new millennium." -- Don Morreale, Tricycle
"[Columbia University] Press continues to bring excellent scholarship to the general reader with this outstanding study of American Buddhism." -- Jana Reiss, Publishers Weekly
"This well-informed book provides a comprehensive survey of a variety of Buddhist traditions in the contemporary U.S.... [its] strength, apart from being a mine of information, is Seager's insistence on taking a historically informed and comparative perspective." -- Martin Baumann, Religious Studies Review
"This book cries out for use as a textbook for classes on Buddhism in America." -- Franz Aubrey Metcalf, "The Journal of Religion"
Richard Hughes Seager is associate professor of religious studies at Hamilton College and is the author of The World's Parliament of Religions: The East-West Encounter, Chicago, 1893 and Dawn of Religious Pluralism: Voices from the World's Parliament of Religions.