{"id":1204,"date":"2010-04-27T09:56:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T13:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2010-05-20T19:41:37","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T23:41:37","slug":"not-buying-into-words-and-letters-zen-ideology-and-prophetic-critique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2010\/04\/27\/not-buying-into-words-and-letters-zen-ideology-and-prophetic-critique\/","title":{"rendered":"Zen Social Ethics: Zen, Ideology, and Prophetic Critique"},"content":{"rendered":"
ISSN 1076-9005
\nVolume 13, 2006<\/h6>\n

Not Buying into Words and Letters: Zen, Ideology, and Prophetic Critique<\/h3>\n

Christopher Ives
\nStonehill College<\/p>\n

Judging from the active participation of Zen leaders and institutions in modern Japanese imperialism, one might conclude that by its very nature Zen succumbs easily to ideological co-optation. Several facets of Zen epistemology and institutional history support this conclusion. At the same time, a close examination of Zen theory and praxis indicates that the tradition does possess resources for resisting dominant ideologies and engaging in ideology critique.<\/p>\n

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ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 13, 2006 Not Buying into Words and Letters: Zen, Ideology, and Prophetic Critique Christopher Ives Stonehill College Judging from the active participation of Zen leaders and institutions in modern Japanese imperialism, one might conclude that by its very nature Zen succumbs easily to ideological co-optation. Several facets of Zen epistemology and institutional … Continue reading Zen Social Ethics: Zen, Ideology, and Prophetic Critique<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2387],"tags":[2654,1328,2718,2596],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-13-2006","tag-epistemology","tag-ideology","tag-japanese-imperialism","tag-zen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-jq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}