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Japanese temple Buddhism : worldliness in a religion of renunciation / Stephen G. Covell.

By: Series: Topics in contemporary BuddhismPublication details: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, ©2005.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 256 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781435665521
  • 143566552X
  • 9780824863135
  • 0824863135
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Japanese temple Buddhism.DDC classification:
  • 294.3/65/0952 22
LOC classification:
  • BQ697 .C67 2005eb
Online resources:
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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  • digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-249) and index.

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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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.

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In English.

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