Buddhism, Unitarianism, and the Meiji competition for universality /
"This book spotlights the debates between Unitarianism and Buddhism in Japan since the late 1800s. Focusing on the events triggered by the missionaries of the American Unitarian Association in Japan between 1887 and 1922, this study investigates this formative time in Japanese religious and int...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Published by the Harvard University Asia Center,
2014.
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Colección: | Harvard East Asian monographs ;
351. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Timeline of Unitarianism in Japan
- Setting the stage
- The advent of the Unitarians in Japan
- The wavering of early Japanese support
- Inspired Buddhist intellectuals
- Japanese students at Harvard and the Waseda connection
- Involvement in the labor movement
- Dispatching the hatchet man
- Discordant voices
- The counterexample of Shaku Sōen
- Epilogue: reexamining the universalizing channels.