Articles

• Global and Domestic Challenges Confronting Buddhist Institutions in Japan.
  By John Nelson
• Theory and Method in the Study of Buddhism: Toward 'Translocative' Analysis.
  By Thomas A. Tweed

      Book Review

• Taiwan's Buddhist Nuns. By Elise Anne DeVido. Albany, State University of New York Press. 2010. xvii+188 pages, ISBN 978-1-4384-3148-2 (paper), $24.95.
  Reviewed by Charles B. Jones
• The Emergence of Buddhist American Literature. Edited by John Whalen-Bridge and Gary Storhoff. Albany: SUNY Press, 2009, xii + 255 pages, ISBN 978-1-4384-2653-2 (hardcover), $80.00; ISBN 978-1-4384-2654-9 (paperback), $24.95; ISBN 978-1-4384-2659-4 (electronic), $24.95.
  Reviewed by Kimberly Beek
• Meditation in Modern Buddhism: Renunciation and Change in Thai Monastic Life. By Joanna Cook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 224 pages, ISBN 9780521119382 (hardcover) $95.00; ISBN 9780511773358 (Mobipocket eBook) $76.00; ISBN 9780511771170 (Adobe eBook) $76.00.
  Reviewed by Brooke Schedneck
• Wild Geese: Buddhism in Canada. Edited by John S. Harding, Victor Sōgen Hori, and Alexander Soucy. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010. 456 pp. ISBN 978-0773536661 (hardcover) $95.00; ISBN 978-0773536678 (paperback), $29.95.
  Reviewed by Jeff Wilson