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Greetings, I'm new to the list, happy to be a part of this community, and hope I'm going about this query correctly. I'm a sociologist studying a group of Western converts to Tibetan Buddhism. The leaders of the group are Geshe Michael Roach and Lama Christie McNally. They run a small Buddhist community called Diamond Mountain in Southern Arizona. My interest is twofold: 1. I'm currently making a documentary film about six students at Diamond Mountain as they prepare for their three-year silent retreat. The film will follow them as they close down their lives and enter into retreat on Dec 2010 and pick up when they come out three-years, three-months, and three-days later. I'm curious if there has been any scholarly work done on long retreats within a Western context? Or, if anyone knows of similar films? 1. I've become particularly intrigued by the leadership dynamics within this group. I've been collecting work by scholars of contemporary Western Buddhism like Coleman, Prebish, Mullen, Cadge, etc. Now, however, I'm looking for more work dealing explicitly with charismatic and traditional types of leadership and authority structures of contemporary Western groups. 3. I've searched journals in my discipline such as Sociology of Religion and the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, with little success. I've also searched the major data-bases such as JSTOR. I guess the main issue is that I'm new to this area of study and have only recently learned of journals such as the Journal of Global Buddhism (thanks Franz). So, any help is greatly appreciated. Any help is greatly appreciated. Matthew Immergut Purchase College, SUNY --------------------------- H-Buddhism (Buddhist Scholars Information Network) Web Site: <http://www.h-net.org/~buddhism/> Posting Guidelines: <http://www.h-net.org/~buddhism/posting_guidelines.html > Handling Your Account: <http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=h-buddhism >
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