Havnevik, Hüsken, Teeuwen, Tikhonov, Wellens (eds). "Buddhist Modernities: Re-Inventing Tradition in the Globalizing Modern World." London: Routledge, 2017: 1- 297.
McMahan, David L.: "The Making of Buddhist Modernism." Oxford University Press, 2008: 1-265.
McMahan, David L.: "Buddhism in the Modern World." London: Routledge, 2012. 1- 325.
The following articles are suggested as additional reading. Articles marked with an asterisk * are available for download, the others will be available in Canvas:
For those who do not have basic knowledge of Buddhism, please read Prebish, C. and D. Keown, Introducing Buddhism. London: Routledge [2006] 2010.
* Ashiwa, Yoshiko. "Positioning Religion in Modernity: State and Buddhism in China." In Yoshiko Ashiwa and David L. Wank (eds.) Making Religion, Making the State: The Politics of Religion in Modern China. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2009: 43-73.
Bareja-Starzynska, Agata and Hanna Havnevik. "A Preliminary Study of Buddhism in Present-Day Mongolia. In Ole Bruun and Li Narangoa (eds) Mongols: From Country to City. Copenhagen: Nias Press, 2006.
Swearer, Donald K. 1999. “Centre and Periphery: Buddhism and Politics in Modern Thailand.” In Ian Harris (ed.), Buddhism and Politics in Twentieth-Century Asia. London: Continuum, 1999:194-228
*McCargo, Duncan. “The Changing Politics of Thailand’s Buddhist Order.” Critical Asian Studies 44 (4), 2012: 627-642.
Chapman, John. “The Pilgrimage and Return to Vietnam of Exiled Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.” In Philip Taylor (ed.), Modernity and Re-enchantment:Religion in Post-revolutionary Vietnam. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2007: 297-341.
Soucy, Alexander. The Buddha Side: Gender, Power, and Buddhist Practice in Vietnam. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012 (Introduction and chapter 2, pp. 1-15, 37-59.)
*Fisher, Gareth. 2012. "Religion as Repertoire: Resourcing the Past in a Beijing Buddhist Temple." Modern China 38: 346 –376.
Ji Zhe. 2008. "Secularization as Religious Restructuring: Statist Institutionalization of Chinese Buddhism and Its Paradoxes." In M. M.-h. Yang (ed.): Chinese Religiosities: Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation. University of California Press, 2008: 233-261.
Cabeón, José Ignacio. “State Control of Tibetan Buddhist Monasticism in the People’s Republic of China.” In M.M.-h Yang (ed.): Chinese Religiosities: Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation. University of California Press, 2008:261-291.
Germano, David. “Re-membering the Dismembered Body of Tibet: Contemporary Tibetan Visionary Movements in the People’s Republic of China.” In Melvyn C. Goldstein and Kapstein, Matthew T. (eds.) : Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity. University of California Press, 1998: 53-95.
Makley, Charlene: “The Body of a Nun: Nunhood and Gender in Contemporary Amdo.” In Janet Gyatso and Hanna Havnevik (eds.), Women in Tibet. London: Hurst 2005: 259-285.
Karma Lekshe Tsomo: “Reviving Bhiksuni Ordination: Implications for the Tibetan Buddhist Diaspora”. Paper presented at the XIII Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Ulaanbaatar 2013 (8 pages, forthcoming)
Covell, Stephen Grover: Japanese Temple Buddhism: Worldliness in a Religion of Renunciation, 2005. University of Hawaii Press. xii. 256 pages. (selected chapters)
Pori Park, Trial and Error in Modernist Reforms: Korean Buddhism under Colonial Rule, Institute of East Asian Studies, 2009. (chapters 4 and 5)
Jin.Y.Park, Makers of Modern Korean Buddhism. NY, SUNY Series in Korean Studies, 2010. (chapters 5, 6, and 12)