Experimental Buddhism: Innovation and Activism in Contemporary Japan
Experimental Buddhism highlights the complex and often wrenching interactions between long-established religious traditions and rapid social, cultural, and economic change. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, it is one of the first studies to give readers a sense of what is happening on the front lines as progressive Buddhist priests try to reboot their roles and traditions to gain greater significance in Japanese society. The work's central theme of experimental Buddhism provides a fresh perspective to understand how priests and other individuals employ Buddhist traditions in selective and pragmatic ways, frequently riskin…
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Weitere Autoren: Tanabe, George J. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8248-3833-1
- EAN: 9780824838331
- Produktnummer: 14930488
- Verlag: Univ Of Hawaii Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.2 cm 603 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 603
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