Practical Pursuits : : Religion, Politics, and Personal Cultivation in Nineteenth-Century Japan /

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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Sawada, Janine Anderson,
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

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