Japanese temple Buddhism :
Covell, Stephen Grover, 1965-
Japanese temple Buddhism : worldliness in a religion of renunciation / Stephen G. Covell. - Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, ©2005. - 1 online resource (xii, 256 pages). - Topics in contemporary Buddhism . - Topics in contemporary Buddhism. .
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.
Electronic reproduction.
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HathiTrust Digital Library,
2011.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
In English.
9781435665521 143566552X 9780824863135 0824863135
10.21313/9780824863135 doi
22573/ctt62v8z6 JSTOR
Since 1945
Buddhism--Japan--1945-
Buddhist priests--Office.--Japan
Bouddhisme--Histoire--Japon--1945-
Prêtres bouddhistes--Ministère.--Japon
RELIGION--Buddhism--General.
Buddhism.
Buddhist priests--Office.
Buddhismus
Tempel.
Japan.
Japan.
Electronic books.
BQ697 / .C67 2005eb
294.3/65/0952
Japanese temple Buddhism : worldliness in a religion of renunciation / Stephen G. Covell. - Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, ©2005. - 1 online resource (xii, 256 pages). - Topics in contemporary Buddhism . - Topics in contemporary Buddhism. .
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.
Use copy
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.
Electronic reproduction.
[S.l.] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2011.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
In English.
9781435665521 143566552X 9780824863135 0824863135
10.21313/9780824863135 doi
22573/ctt62v8z6 JSTOR
Since 1945
Buddhism--Japan--1945-
Buddhist priests--Office.--Japan
Bouddhisme--Histoire--Japon--1945-
Prêtres bouddhistes--Ministère.--Japon
RELIGION--Buddhism--General.
Buddhism.
Buddhist priests--Office.
Buddhismus
Tempel.
Japan.
Japan.
Electronic books.
BQ697 / .C67 2005eb
294.3/65/0952
