Special Focus: Alternate Buddhist Modernities

• Introduction: Alternate Buddhist Modernities
  JOHN S. HARDING, VICTOR SŌGEN HORI, ALEXANDER SOUCY
• Branding a New Buddhist Movement: The New Kadampa Tradition’s Self- Identification as “Modern Buddhism” Buddhism and Economics
  CHRISTOPHER EMORY-MOORE
• Reviving the Buddha: The Use of the Devotional Ritual of Buddha-Vandanā in the Modernization of Buddhism in Colonial Sri Lanka
  SOORAKKULAME PEMARATANA
• Buddhist Contramodernism: Shinnyo-en’s Reconfigurations of Tradition for Modernity
  CASEY R. COLLINS

      Special Focus: Bad Buddhism

• An Introduction to Bad Buddhism
  HANNAH GOULD, MELYN MCKAY
• Monastic Intimacies: An Anthropology of Good and Bad Buddhism among the Tai Lue of Sipsong Panna (P.R. China)
  ROGER CASAS
• Authenticating Buddhism in the Public Sphere: Moral Dialogues in Ladakh
  ROHIT SINGH
• The Mothers of the Righteous Society: Lay Buddhist Women as Agents of the Sinhala Nationalist Imaginary
  NALIKA GAJAWEERA
• Connecting with and Distancing from: Transnational Influences in the Formation of Buddhist Identity and Practices in Bangladesh
  UPALI SRAMAN
• Doing good: Local and global understandings of Buddhism in Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement
  MARISKE WESTENDORP
• Japan’s “Priests’ Bars”: “Bad Buddhism” or Hope for the Future?
  JOHN NELSON
• Beyond “Bad Buddhism”: Conceptualizing Buddhist Counseling in Ulan-Ude, Buryatia
  KRISTINA JONUTYTĖ
• Bad Buddhists, Good Robots: Techno-Salvationist Designs for Nirvana
  HANNAH GOULD, HOLLY WALTERS

       Research Articles

• Feeling for Fate: Karma and the Senses in Buddhist Nuns’ Ordination Narratives
  SARA ANN SWENSON
• Buddhist Teachers’ Responses to Sexual Violence: Epistemological Violence in American Buddhism
  RAY BUCKNER

       Discussions and Critical Notes

• Translation through a Zen Mind: Sam Hamill’s Translation of Li Bai’s “Du Zuo Jing Ting Shan”
  JIYONG GENG, QIANG PI

       Book Reviews

• Why I Am Not a Buddhist? by Evan Thompson
  THOMAS CALOBRISI
• American JewBu, by Emily Sigalow
  VANESSA SASSON
• Women in British Buddhism: Commitment, Connection, Community, by Caroline Starkey
  AMY LANGENBERG
• Buddhist Economics: An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science, by Clair Brown
  WOLFGANG DRECHSLER
• Birth in Buddhism: The Suffering Fetus and Female Freedom, by Amy Langenberg
  CAROLINE STARKEY