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Japanese temple Buddhism : worldliness in a religion of renunciation /
Stephen Covell addresses fully contemporary Buddhist life and institutions - topics often overlooked in the conflict between the rhetoric of renunciation and the practices of clerical marriage and householding that characterise much of Buddhism in today's Japan.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press,
©2005.
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| Colección: | Topics in contemporary Buddhism.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Temple Buddhism today: scholarly and popular images of corruption
- Laity and the temple: past and present
- Trying to have it both ways: the laity in a world-renouncer organization?
- The contemporary priesthood: images of identity crisis
- New priests for new times?
- Coming to terms: temple wives and world-renouncers
- Money and the temple: law, taxes and the image of Buddhism
- The price of naming the dead: funerals, posthumous precept names, and changing views of the afterlife.