TY  - BOOK
AU  - Covell,Stephen Grover
TI  - Japanese temple Buddhism: worldliness in a religion of renunciation 
T2  - Topics in contemporary Buddhism
SN  - 9781435665521
AV  - BQ697 .C67 2005eb
U1  - 294.3/65/0952 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Honolulu
PB  - University of Hawaii Press
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - Japan
KW  - 1945-
KW  - Buddhist priests
KW  - Office
KW  - Bouddhisme
KW  - Japon
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Prêtres bouddhistes
KW  - Ministère
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Buddhismus
KW  - gnd
KW  - Tempel
KW  - swd
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011
N2  - 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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