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The Resource Bonds of the dead : temples, burial, and the transformation of contemporary Japanese Buddhism, Mark Michael Rowe

Bonds of the dead : temples, burial, and the transformation of contemporary Japanese Buddhism, Mark Michael Rowe

Label
Bonds of the dead : temples, burial, and the transformation of contemporary Japanese Buddhism
Title
Bonds of the dead
Title remainder
temples, burial, and the transformation of contemporary Japanese Buddhism
Statement of responsibility
Mark Michael Rowe
Creator
Subject
Language
  • eng
  • jpn
  • eng
Summary
Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. For that reason, Japanese Buddhism's social and economic base has long been in mortuary services - a base now threatened by public debate over the status, treatment, and location of the dead. "Bonds of the Dead" explores the crisis brought on by this debate and investigates what changing burial forms reveal about the ways temple Buddhism is perceived and propagated in contemporary Japan. Mark Michael Rowe offers a crucial account of how religious, political, social, and economic forces in the twentieth century led to the emergence of new funerary practices in Japan and how, as a result, the care of the dead has become the most fundamental challenge to the continued existence of Japanese temple Buddhism
Member of
Cataloging source
ICU/DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Rowe, Mark
Dewey number
294.3/43880952
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Language note
Includes text in English and Japanese
LC call number
BQ5020
LC item number
.R69 2011
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
Buddhism and modernity
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Buddhist funeral rites and ceremonies
  • Buddhism
  • Buddhism
  • Buddhist funeral rites and ceremonies
  • Japan
  • Bestattung
  • Buddhismus
  • Tod
  • Japan
  • Buddhismus
  • Bestattung
  • Ritus
  • Religionsausübung
  • Moderne
  • Japan
Label
Bonds of the dead : temples, burial, and the transformation of contemporary Japanese Buddhism, Mark Michael Rowe
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
The "death" of Japanese Buddhism -- Avoiding abandonment -- Challenging the status quo -- myōkōji -- Limitless connections -- tōchōji -- Scattering ashes -- Sectarian researchers and the funeral problem -- Appendix: Jōdo sect survey of funerary Buddhism (1994)
Control code
ocn707842218
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xv, 258 pages
Isbn
9780226730158
Lccn
2011009198
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9780226730158
  • (OCoLC)707842218
Label
Bonds of the dead : temples, burial, and the transformation of contemporary Japanese Buddhism, Mark Michael Rowe
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
The "death" of Japanese Buddhism -- Avoiding abandonment -- Challenging the status quo -- myōkōji -- Limitless connections -- tōchōji -- Scattering ashes -- Sectarian researchers and the funeral problem -- Appendix: Jōdo sect survey of funerary Buddhism (1994)
Control code
ocn707842218
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xv, 258 pages
Isbn
9780226730158
Lccn
2011009198
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9780226730158
  • (OCoLC)707842218

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