List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Notes on Transliteration and Conventions for Non-English Terms Introduction Saeko Yazaki and Michael Conway 1. Rendering the Strange Familiar: Orientalist Appropriations of Sufism Robert Irwin 2. Buddhism for the West: Modern Disenchantment, Religion, and Zen's Appeal to Modern Audiences Tullio Lobetti 3. 'Mystics, Masters and Teachers': the Entanglement of Spirituality, Politics and Empire in the European 'Guru Field' c. 1918-1939 Steven J. Sutcliffe 4. The Universalist Exoticism of Inayat Khan: From Sufi to Prophet Mark Sedgwick 5. Oneness and Separation in Japanese Buddhist Sensibility: Suzuki Daisetsu's Presentation of the Myokonin Michael Conway 6.

'The dance is the (s)way of life': The open approach of the Jewish Sufi-Zen teacher Samuel Lewis and his Dances of Universal Peace Saeko Yazaki 7. American Zen After D. T. Suzuki: Encounters with a Tibetan Buddhist Master Akemi Iwamoto 8. Bringing Sufism to the Mainstream: 'Traditional Islam' and the Making of the Third Place in an American Muslim Community Kei Takahashi 9. Zen for the Elite, Buddhism for the Masses: Religious and Spiritual Circulation between Japan and the West Jørn Borup Concluding Reflections George Pattison.