Special Focus: Zen and Popular Culture

• Introduction: Zen and Popular Culture
  Inken Prohl, Tim Graf
• Down-to-Earth Zen: Zen Buddhism in Japanese Manga and Movies
  Elisabetta Porcu
• Putting a Price on Zen: The Business of Redefining Religion for Global Consumption
  Joshua A. Irizarry
• Easternization of the East? Zen and Spirituality as Distinct Cultural Narratives in Japan
  Jørn Borup

      Research Articles

• Pure Land or Pure Mind?: Locus of Awakening and American Popular Religious Culture
  Richard K. Payne

      Book Review

• Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice: In Search of the Female Renunciant, by Nirmala S. Salgado
  Karma Lekshe Tsomo
• Flowers on the Rock: Global and Local Buddhisms in Canada, edited by John S. Harding, Victor Sōgen Hori, and Alexander Soucy
  Jeff Wilson
• Buddhism and American Cinema, edited by John Whalen-Bride and Gary Storhoff
  Ronald S. Green