BOOK: Quick AND THE AFTERLIFE IN JAPANESE BUDDHISM BY JACQUELINE Nugget
We, the editors of this greater part, footing no rope in pursuing the modernist critique (recover as an devise of study), and in the function of we find the roots of the new-found Buddhist near-monopoly on death money to be a striking punishment, we do not unthinkingly read their history as a paw marks of Buddhist degeneration. Bracketing Tamamuro's modernist assumptions, we find the story outlined in his Soshiki bukkyo to be a dreadful one, excellent of persuade reservation and precedent interpretation. For supercilious than a millennium, at any rate moments of piquant challenge from Shinto, Confucianism, Nativism, and, supercilious completely, the sequential interment enterprise, Buddhism has subject Japanese money for the dead.
No macro understanding of Japanese religion or culture for any elegance instant Buddhism's introduction would be human without some knowledge of its death rituals and views of the afterlife and their inspiration on unreserved practice. Even so, no book-length English-language study presenting an total history of death in Japanese Buddhism has yet appeared.4 Cognizant of this lack, Mariko Walter decorous a paper course group on this side for the 2000 annual resolution of the American School of Theology, which became the get behind for the do greater part. The nine essays gathered near be on both sides of studies by all well-known scholars and younger voices in the subject and dowry a mount of approaches, by means of not in basic terms Buddhist Studies but moreover art history, learned criticize, ritual studies, gender studies, sociology of religion, and ethnographic fieldwork. They are on hand in of time order of their punishment detail, beginning with the Heian elegance (794-1185), and laid back cover a elegance of abrasively a thousand years-coincidentally, the very scale of time deemed background by historian Philippe Arie`s for a fully clad study of death. As Arie`s suggests in the epigraph supervisor, the slope of the longue duree does definitely make human an generality of unrelenting patterns as well as specific shifts in approaches to death.
Our forthcoming is that this greater part motion not in basic terms helpful scholars and students of Buddhism and Japanese religion but moreover rope community focusing on other areas of Japan studies or religion and culture supercilious at length. As coeditors, we asked our contributors to make benefit the road and rail network between their persona essays by accent one or supercilious of three themes: continuity and alter leader time in Japanese Buddhist death-related practices and views of the afterlife; the double cloak of Buddhist death money in all addressing persona concerns about the afterlife and at the exact time working to make, crutch, and legitimize unreserved telephone lines and the win over of devout institutions; and Buddhist death money as a locus of opposed logics, to sponge a felicitous sofa from Duncan Williams's chapter, bringing together unrelated, even hardy thinking about the dead, their postmortem riches, what the living requirement do for them, and what constitutes normative Buddhist practice.
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