[PDF.65pi] Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism (Buddhism and Modernity)

Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism (Buddhism and Modernity)

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 | #1844060 in Books |  2011-11-01 |  2011-11-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.70 x6.00l,.80 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent, accessable work|By Patrick|A fascinating study of the current crisis evolution of Buddhism as it is practiced in 21st century Japan. Through interviews and visits to rural and urban temples over the better part of a decade, Rowe captures how individuals, families, priests and institutions attempt to navigate 1000-year-old traditions/customs in a hyper-modern society.| |"Bonds of the Dead contains a wealth of fascinating information that reminds us that human societies rely on religion to confront the insurmountable problem of death." (William Bodiford, University of California, Los Angeles)"|Abou

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 ...

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