Secularities in Japan
Published on 30. June 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
196 pages
978-90-04-51736-3 (ISBN)
Description
This volume brings together contributions that, from different disciplinary perspectives, highlight certain aspects and problems related to the configuration of the relationship between the religious and the secular in Japan. In the background stands the question of the historical path dependencies that lead to the formation of a specifically Japanese secularity. Based on the assumption that existing epistemic and social structures shape the way in which Western concepts of secularism were appropriated, the individual case studies demonstrate that the culturally specific appropriation of Western regulatory principles such as secularism has created problems that are of political relevance in contemporary Japan.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
281 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-51736-3 (9789004517363)
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Ugo Dessi, Ph.D. (2006), is OeNB Professorial Fellow at the University of Vienna. He has published widely on Japanese Buddhism and Japanese religions under globalization, including The Global Repositioning of Japanese Religions: An Integrated Approach (Routledge, 2017).
Christoph Kleine, Ph.D. (1995), is Professor for the History of Religions at Leipzig University. He has published widely on Buddhism and the religious history of Japan, including Der Buddhismus in Japan: Geschichte, Lehre Praxis (Mohr Siebeck, 2011).
Contributors are: Ugo Dessi, Satoko Fujiwara, Christoph Kleine, Kawata Koh, Hans Martin Kraemer, Aike P. Rots, Katja Triplett.
Christoph Kleine, Ph.D. (1995), is Professor for the History of Religions at Leipzig University. He has published widely on Buddhism and the religious history of Japan, including Der Buddhismus in Japan: Geschichte, Lehre Praxis (Mohr Siebeck, 2011).
Contributors are: Ugo Dessi, Satoko Fujiwara, Christoph Kleine, Kawata Koh, Hans Martin Kraemer, Aike P. Rots, Katja Triplett.
Content
Introduction: Secularities in Japan
?Ugo Dessi and Christoph Kleine
Formations of Secularity in Ancient Japan? On Cultural Encounters, Critical Junctures, and Path-Dependent Processes
?Christoph Kleine
Religion, Medicine and the Notion of Charity in Early Jesuit Missionary Pursuits in Buddhist Japan
?Katja Triplett
Secularization and the Joruri Plays: The Decline of Religious Belief and the Search for Secular Salvation in Early Modern Japan
?Kawata Koh ???
"Even Three-Year-Old Children Know That the Source of Enlightenment is not Religion but Science": Modern Japanese Buddhism between 'Religion' and 'Science,' 1860s-1910s
?Hans Martin Kraemer
Practicing Belonging? Non-religiousness in Twenty-First Century Japan
?Fujiwara Satoko
World Heritage, Secularisation, and the New "Public Sacred" in East Asia
?Aike P. Rots
?Ugo Dessi and Christoph Kleine
Formations of Secularity in Ancient Japan? On Cultural Encounters, Critical Junctures, and Path-Dependent Processes
?Christoph Kleine
Religion, Medicine and the Notion of Charity in Early Jesuit Missionary Pursuits in Buddhist Japan
?Katja Triplett
Secularization and the Joruri Plays: The Decline of Religious Belief and the Search for Secular Salvation in Early Modern Japan
?Kawata Koh ???
"Even Three-Year-Old Children Know That the Source of Enlightenment is not Religion but Science": Modern Japanese Buddhism between 'Religion' and 'Science,' 1860s-1910s
?Hans Martin Kraemer
Practicing Belonging? Non-religiousness in Twenty-First Century Japan
?Fujiwara Satoko
World Heritage, Secularisation, and the New "Public Sacred" in East Asia
?Aike P. Rots