Anderson Cooper’s journey into mindfulness was featured on the latest episode of 60 Minutes, and it proved to be a textbook example of what I call the mystification, medicalization, mainstreaming, and…
jeff wilson
Jeff Wilson is the author of Mindful America: The Mutual Transformation of Buddhist Meditation and American Culture (Oxford University Press, 2014), Dixie Dharma: Inside a Buddhist Temple in the American South (University of North Carolina Press, 2012), and Mourning the Unborn Dead: A Buddhist Ritual Comes to America (Oxford University Press, 2009). He is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies and East Asian Studies at Renison University College (University of Waterloo).
