Guardians of the Buddha's Home : : Domestic Religion in Contemporary Jōdo Shinshū /

Guardians of the Buddha's Home : : Domestic Religion in Contemporary Jōdo Shinshū / / Jessica Starling; ed. by Mark Michael Rowe.

In Guardians of the Buddha's Home, Jessica Starling draws on nearly three years of ethnographic research to provide a comprehensive view of Jōdo Shinshū (True Pure Land) temple life with temple wives (known as bōmori, or temple guardians) at its center. Throughout, she focuses on "domestic...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2019
VerfasserIn:
Starling, Jessica,
HerausgeberIn:
Rowe, Mark Michael,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.) :; 7 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Series Editor's Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. A Family of Clerics
  • 2. Staying at Home as Buddhist Propagation
  • 3. Home Economics
  • 4. Social Networks and Social Obligations in the Disciplining of Bōmori
  • 5. Wives in Front of the Altar
  • 6. Equality and Freedom in the Ōtani-ha
  • Conclusion
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • About the Author

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