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

The Resource Bonds of the dead : temples, burial, and the transformation of contemporary Japanese Buddhism
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Bonds of the dead : temples, burial, and the transformation of contemporary Japanese Buddhism
Title remainder
temples, burial, and the transformation of contemporary Japanese Buddhism
Statement of responsibility
Mark Michael Rowe
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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
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Cataloging source
ICU/DLC
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

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