The culture of secrecy in Japanese religion /

The Japanese Middle Ages were a period when forms of secrecy dominated religious practice. This fascinating collection traces out the secret characteristics and practices in Japanese religion, as well as analyzing the decline of religious esotericism in Japan. The essays in this impressive work refe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Scheid, Bernhard, 1960-, Teeuwen, Mark
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Temas:
Secrecy > Religious aspects.
Secrecy > Japan.
Secrecy > Religious aspects > Tantric Buddhism.
Tantric Buddhism > Japan > History.
Secret > Aspect religieux.
Secret.
Bouddhisme tantrique > Japon > Histoire.
RELIGION > History.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Religious.
Civilization > Buddhist influences
Secrecy
Secrecy > Religious aspects
Tantric Buddhism
Geheimhaltung
Geheimkult
Religion
Godsdiensten.
Geheimhouding.
Japan > Civilization > Buddhist influences.
Japon > Civilisation > Influence bouddhique.
Japan
Japan.
History
Aufsatzsammlung.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Japan's culture of secrecy from a comparative perspective / Mark Teeuwen
  • Secrets and secrecy in the study of religion : comparative views from the ancient world / Albert de Jong
  • The Problem of secrecy in Indian Tantric Buddhism / Ronald M. Davidson
  • Myth and secrecy in Tang-period Tantric Buddhism / Martin Lehnert
  • Secrecy in Japanese esoteric Buddhism / Fabio Rambelli
  • Reconsidering the taxonomy of the esoteric : hermeneutical and ritual practices of the lotus sutra / Lucia Dolce
  • Knowing vs. owning a secret : secrecy in medieval Japan, as seen through the sokui kanjo enthronement unction / Mark Teeuwen
  • Secrecy, sex and apocrypha : remarks on some paradoxical phenomena / Nobumi Iyanaga
  • Esotericism in noh commentaries and plays : Konparu Zenchiku's Meishuku shu and Kakitsubata / Susan Blakeley Klein
  • The elephant in the room : the cult of secrecy in Japanese Tantrism / Bernard Faure
  • Myths, rites, and Icons : three views of a secret / Kadoya Atsushi
  • Two modes of secrecy in the Nihon shoki transmission / Bernhard Scheid
  • When secrecy ends : the Tokugawa reformation of Tendai Buddhism and its implications / William M. Bodiford
  • Hiding the shoguns : secrecy and the nature of political authority in Tokugawa Japan / Anne Walthall
  • "Esoteric" and "public" in the late Mito thought / Kate Wildman Nakai.

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