Japanese temple Buddhism : worldliness in a religion of renunciation /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Covell, Stephen Grover, 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, ©2005.
Series:Topics in contemporary Buddhism.
Subjects:
Since 1945
Buddhism > Japan > 1945-
Buddhist priests > Japan > Office.
Buddhism > Japan > History > 1945-
Bouddhisme > Japon > Histoire > 1945-
Prêtres bouddhistes > Japon > Ministère.
RELIGION > Buddhism > General.
Buddhism
Buddhist priests > Office
Buddhismus
Tempel
Japan
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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