Practical Pursuits : : Religion, Politics, and Personal Cultivation in Nineteenth-Century Japan / / Janine Anderson Sawada.
The idea that personal cultivation leads to social and material well-being became widespread in late Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868). Practical Pursuits explores theories of personal development that were diffused in the early nineteenth century by a network of religious groups in the Edo (Tokyo) area, a...
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Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2004] ©2004 |
Year of Publication: | 2004 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (400 p.) :; illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CONVENTIONS
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Fertility of Dead Words
- Chapter 2. Divination as Cultivation
- Chapter 3. Breathing as Purification
- Chapter 4. The Parameters of Learning
- Chapter 5. Practical Learning in the Meditation Hall
- Chapter 6. Koji Zen
- Chapter 7. Shifting Boundaries in the Sangha
- Chapter 8. The Great Synthesis
- Chapter 9. Enlightened Conservatives
- Chapter 10. The Enemy Within
- AFTERWORD
- NOTES
- GLOSSARY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX