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The Buddha’s Midwife

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Between the Parliament of Religions which  met in Chicago in 1893 at the time of the Columbian Exposition, and  World War I, Asian religions and philosophies made a significant impact  on the United States, causing a profound change in thinking about them,  including their relevance to the present. More so than any other  religion, Buddhism became a crutch for those who, in the final decades  of the nineteenth century, became disillusioned with Christianity’s  claim to superiority over all other faiths. Like so many intellectuals  at the time, Carus was seeking a path from the older theologies into a  new secular world and its uncertain future. Through The Buddha’s Midwife, Paul Carus not only brought elements of Buddhism to the United States, but much of the Western world.

This  book was written to recount the journey of one of the principal  contributors to the spread of Buddhist thinking in American thought and  culture. Now, reissued for the first time since its original publishing, The Buddha’s Midwife returns to excite and inspire new audiences. 

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