So, habe mir jetzt doch 'After Buddhism' zugelegt.
Sehr schön schon im Vorwort:
ZitatAlthough many modern Asians are Buddhists who find themselves becoming secularized, I am a secular European finding out what it means to become a Buddhist. We might meet each other on the road, but we are heading in opposite directions. Just as their Buddhism is challenged by secularity, so my secularity is being challenged by Buddhism. My concern, therefore, is as much about imagining a Buddhist secularity as about imagining a secular Buddhism. We have seen what can happen to Buddhism when it becomes secularized, but what would happen to a secular perspective inflected by the principles and values of the dharma?
Soviel zur immer wieder gerne geäußerten Unterstellung, es ginge Batchelor um eine 'Säkularisierung des dharma'. Sein Anspruch (was natürlich nicht bedeuten muss, dass er dem auch gerecht wird) besteht in der 'Dharmaisierung der Säkularisation' - was natürlich etwas ganz anderes ist...