Covell, Stephen Grover,  1965- <br/><br/>
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. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-249) and index. 
<br/><br/>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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<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>[S.l.] : <br/>HathiTrust Digital Library, <br/>2011. 
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<br/><br/><br/>In English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781435665521 143566552X 9780824863135 0824863135 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.21313/9780824863135  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>22573/ctt62v8z6  JSTOR 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>Since 1945 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Buddhism--Japan--1945-<br/>Buddhist priests--Office.--Japan<br/>Bouddhisme--Histoire--Japon--1945-<br/>Prêtres bouddhistes--Ministère.--Japon<br/>RELIGION--Buddhism--General.<br/>Buddhism.<br/>Buddhist priests--Office.<br/>Buddhismus<br/>Tempel.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Japan.<br/>Japan.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BQ697  / .C67 2005eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>294.3/65/0952