[Buddha-l] iNTERESTING US MAP GRAPHIC SHOWING %AGE OF THE VARIOUS RELIGIONS

[Jo]

To Scott's rant,

I should have added when speaking of Vietnam that various agencies there,
official and non-official, have tried doing religion surveys and found out
the very difficulties you mention, leading to healthy skepticism among let's
say the unofficial sector. However, scholarly literature plus journalism
often states that Vietnamese observe various versions of Confucianism,
Daoism, Chinese clan cults and varied deities, and Buddhism. Probably this
sort of variability could be said for a lot of "new worlders", like us.

Joanna



Scott A. Mitchell
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 12:57 PM


Well, who am I to deny Franz a rant.
[.............]I think there's plenty evidence that people both in Asia and
"the West" actually do have more complex and nuanced ideas of the
(non-Buddhist) self that rigid either/or categories are blind to, and these
complexities and nuances are really interesting and worth talking about.