Modern Passings : : Death Rites, Politics, and Social Change in Imperial Japan / / Andrew Bernstein.
What to do with the dead?In Imperial Japan, as elsewhere in the modernizing world, answering this perennial question meant relying on age-old solutions. Funerals, burials, and other mortuary rites had developed over the centuries with the aim of building continuity in the face of loss. As Japanese c...
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Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2006] ©2006 |
Year of Publication: | 2006 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Of Buddhas and Ancestors
- 2. The Shinto Challenge to Buddhist Death
- 3. The Great Cremation Debate
- 4. Divesting Shinto Funerals
- 5. Grave Matters
- 6. Dying in Style
- Epilogue: The Japanese Way of Death and Its Critics
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index