Japanese Religions at Home and Abroad
Author | : Hirochika Nakamaki |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Hirochika Nakamaki |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
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Author | : Peter Bernard Clarke |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Cults |
ISBN | : 9781873410806 |
Containing some 1500 entries, this new bibliography will be widely welcomed for its comprehensive brief, and for the sub-section profiling principal NRMs convering history, beliefs and practices, main publications, braches worldwide and membership.
Author | : George J. Tanabe Jr. |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 583 |
Release | : 2020-06-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0691214743 |
This anthology reflects a range of Japanese religions in their complex, sometimes conflicting, diversity. In the tradition of the Princeton Readings in Religions series, the collection presents documents (legends and miracle tales, hagiographies, ritual prayers and ceremonies, sermons, reform treatises, doctrinal tracts, historical and ethnographic writings), most of which have been translated for the first time here, that serve to illuminate the mosaic of Japanese religions in practice. George Tanabe provides a lucid introduction to the "patterned confusion" of Japan's religious practices. He has ordered the anthology's forty-five readings under the categories of "Ethical Practices," "Ritual Practices," and "Institutional Practices," moving beyond the traditional classifications of chronology, religious traditions (Shinto, Confucianism, Buddhism, etc.), and sects, and illuminating the actual orientation of people who engage in religious practices. Within the anthology's three broad categories, subdivisions address the topics of social values, clerical and lay precepts, gods, spirits, rituals of realization, faith, court and emperor, sectarian founders, wizards, and heroes, orthopraxis and orthodoxy, and special places. Dating from the eighth through the twentieth centuries, the documents are revealed to be open to various and evolving interpretations, their meanings dependent not only on how they are placed in context but also on how individual researchers read them. Each text is preceded by an introductory explanation of the text's essence, written by its translator. Instructors and students will find these explications useful starting points for their encounters with the varied worlds of practice within which the texts interact with readers and changing contexts. Religions of Japan in Practice is a compendium of relationships between great minds and ordinary people, abstruse theories and mundane acts, natural and supernatural powers, altruism and self-interest, disappointment and hope, quiescence and war. It is an indispensable sourcebook for scholars, students, and general readers seeking engagement with the fertile "ordered disorder" of religious practice in Japan.
Author | : Hirochika Nakamaki |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2012-10-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136130268 |
In this important book, a leading authority on Japanese religions brings together for the first time in English his extensive work on the subject. The book is important both for what it reveals about Japanese religions, and also because it demonstrates for western readers the distinctive Japanese approaches to the study of the subject and the different Japanese intellectual traditions which inform it. The book includes historical, cultural, regional and social approaches, and explains historical changes and regional differences. It goes on to provide cultural and symbolic analyses of festivals to reveal their full meanings, and examines Japanese religions among Japanese and non-Japanese communities abroad, exploring the key role of religion in defining Japanese ethnic identity outside Japan.
Author | : Peter B Clarke |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136828729 |
Since the 1960s virtually every part of the world has seen the arrival and establishment of Japanese new religious movements, a process that has followed quickly on the heels of the most active period of Japanese economic expansion overseas. This book examines the nature and extent of this religious expansion outside Japan.
Author | : Mark R. Mullins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Japan |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Elliot Griffis |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 2019-11-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
This book by a Christian missionary Herbert W. Page aimed to present the overall picture of the religious vies in the middle of the Victorian era. The author mentions that Japan at that time had already developed strong boundaries with China and India, yet not absorbed by them. This book is an interesting read in terms of the history of religion or a study of Orient cultures and customs.
Author | : Esben Andreasen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2013-10-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134238584 |
Each of the eight chapters deals with a specific topic, such as Shinto, Buddhism, the new religions, and Christianity; there is an introduction that outlines the subject to be considered followed by a series of readings.
Author | : Peter B. Clarke |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2013-10-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134241453 |
An excellent and very timely update on an area seeing many recent developments.
Author | : Jason Ānanda Josephson |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2012-10-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226412342 |
Throughout its long history, Japan had no concept of what we call “religion.” There was no corresponding Japanese word, nor anything close to its meaning. But when American warships appeared off the coast of Japan in 1853 and forced the Japanese government to sign treaties demanding, among other things, freedom of religion, the country had to contend with this Western idea. In this book, Jason Ananda Josephson reveals how Japanese officials invented religion in Japan and traces the sweeping intellectual, legal, and cultural changes that followed. More than a tale of oppression or hegemony, Josephson’s account demonstrates that the process of articulating religion offered the Japanese state a valuable opportunity. In addition to carving out space for belief in Christianity and certain forms of Buddhism, Japanese officials excluded Shinto from the category. Instead, they enshrined it as a national ideology while relegating the popular practices of indigenous shamans and female mediums to the category of “superstitions”—and thus beyond the sphere of tolerance. Josephson argues that the invention of religion in Japan was a politically charged, boundary-drawing exercise that not only extensively reclassified the inherited materials of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Shinto to lasting effect, but also reshaped, in subtle but significant ways, our own formulation of the concept of religion today. This ambitious and wide-ranging book contributes an important perspective to broader debates on the nature of religion, the secular, science, and superstition.