Rel2121 Wendy Cadge's Heartwood Book Review

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This is a book Review for Wendy Cadge's Heartwood. The review must be 4-5 pages in length. The review will consist of identifying the thesis, purpose, or aim of the book and providing a brief summary of the book (in no more than one page). Most importantly, the review will assess the book’s strengths and weaknesses. Your review should include at least two strengths and two weaknesses from the book.

Avoid nonsense and pseudo-criticism (e.g. “Overall, I just didn’t get a good feeling from this book”; “I don’t like the way the author writes”). As such, strengths and weaknesses should address the content and argument of the book, not its structure or style (e.g. chapter organization; writing style; footnotes/endnotes; etc.). You must support your points with specific references to the book. However, long block quotes should be used sparingly and only if absolutely necessary.

You do not have to agree with everything the book says or claims, but you must be able to articulate what the book is arguing, how it argues it, and why the argument is strong or weak.

Overall, the paper will be graded on clear organization (30 pts); accurate summary and identification of the thesis argument (30 pts); content analysis with specific references (60 pts); and, spelling, syntax, and grammar (30 pts).

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Book report: Wendy Cadge's book “Heartwood”
Wendy Cadge in her book Heartwood explores how Buddhism arrived in the US and how
its practitioners managed to adapt to the new context. Through a careful presentation of what is
considered an ethnography, Wendy is focused on the examination of Theravada Buddhism which
is one of the religions practiced in Sri Lanka and Thailand among other South Asian countries
(Cadge 7). In the book, Wendy begins by tracing the history of the Theravada Buddhism and
how it was introduced in the US by the Asian immigrants as well as by some new converts who
had done their higher studies in Asia. A bulk of the book is spent discussion Wat Phila which is a
temple in Thai near Philadelphia and was established and attended by the native Thais. She also
focused on the Cambridge insight mediation Centre which was established mainly to cater to the
white Americans. In the analysis of the Buddhism religion in the US, Wendy brings out the
interrelationship among the key issues of immigration, personal identity, cultural assimilation
and the role of religion in the daily lives of people in the society.
In the book, Wendy does a systematic comparison of the different ways in which the
immigrants and the converts to Buddhism in the United States understand, practice and adopt it
in their daily lives. These two groups of people according to the text understand and practice
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