Japanese temple Buddhism worldliness in a religion of renunciation /
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| Natura: | Elettronico eBook |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press,
c2005.
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| Serie: | Topics in contemporary Buddhism.
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| Accesso online: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Sommario:
- 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.