Articles

• Buddhism in Australia: An Emerging Field of Study
  By Anna Halafoff, Ruth Fitzpatrick & Kim Lam
• "All Beings Are Equally Embraced By Amida Buddha": Jodo Shinshu Buddhism and Same-Sex Marriage in the United States
  By Jeff Wilson
• "Christianity is for rubes; Buddhism is for actors": U.S. media representations of Buddhism in the wake of the Tiger Woods' scandal
  By Scott A. Mitchell
• A Secular Buddhism
  By Stephen Batchelor
• The Coming of Secular Buddhism: a Synoptic View
  By Winton Higgins
• Wedding the Personal and Impersonal in West Coast Vipassana: A Dialogical Encounter between Buddhism and Psychotherapy
  By Ann Gleig
• Exorcising the Mandala: Kālacakra and the Neo-Pentecostal Response
  By Laura Harrington

      Book Review

• Book Reviews Buddhism in Australia: Traditions in Change.
  Edited by Cristina Rocha and Michelle Barker. London: Routledge, 2011, xviii + 170, ISBN 978-0-415-56818-0 (cloth), USD $130.00/£85.00; ISBN 978-0-203-84032 (ebook), £71.66.
  Reviewed by Emeritus Professor Gary D. Bouma
• Dignity & Discipline: Reviving Full Ordination for Buddhist Nuns.
  Edited by Thea Mohr and Jampa Tsedroen. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2010, 352 pages, ISBN 0-86171-588-8 (paperback), $18.95.
  Reviewed by Mari Jyväsjärvi
• Virtual Orientalism: Asian Religions and American Popular Culture. by Jane Naomi Iwamura. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 232 pp. ISBN 9780199738601 (hardcover), $99.00; ISBN 9780199738618I (paperback), $24.95.
  Reviewed by Jonathan H. X. Lee
• Nothing & Everything: The Influence of Buddhism on the American Avant-Garde 1942 - 1962. by Ellen Pearlman. Berkeley: Evolver Editions, 2012, 264 pages, ISBN 978-1583943632 (paperback), $21.95.
  Reviewed by Marc Olmsted
• Tibetan Rituals of Death: Buddhist funerary practices. By Margaret Gouin. London: Routledge, 2010, 208 pages, ISBN: 978-0-415-62619-4 (paperback), $44.95; ISBN: 978-9-415-56636-0 (hardcover) $145.00; 978-2-203-84998-9 (electronic).
  Reviewed by Dawn Collins