Japanese Temple Buddhism : : Worldliness in a Religion of Renunciation / / Stephen Covell.
There have been many studies that focus on aspects of the history of Japanese Buddhism. Until now, none have addressed important questions of organization and practice in contemporary Buddhism, questions such as how Japanese Buddhism came to be seen as a religion of funeral practices; how Buddhist i...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2005] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Topics in Contemporary Buddhism ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Reign Periods
- Introduction Snapshots of Buddhism in Today's Japan
- 1. Temple Buddhism Today Scholarly and Popular Images of Corruption
- 2. Laity and the Temple Past and Present
- 3. Trying to Have It Both Ways The Laity in a World-Renouncer Organization
- 4. The Contemporary Priesthood Images of Identity Crisis
- 5. New Priests for New Times?
- 6. Coming to Terms Temple Wives and World-Renouncers
- 7. Money and the Temple Law, Taxes, and the Image of Buddhism
- 8. The Price of Naming the Dead Funerals, Posthumous Precept Names, and Changing Views of the Afterlife
- Epilogue The World of Householding World-Renouncers
- Notes
- Sources Cited
- Index
- About the Author