Modern Buddhism in Japan
By: edited by Hayashi Makoto, Otani Eiichi, Paul L. Swanson
Contributors: Ōtani, Eiichi, 1968- editor; Nanzan Shūkyō Bunka Kenkyūjo
Publisher: Nanzan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Shōwa-ku Nagoya, Japan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9784990424879
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Buddhism; History; Civilization; Western influences
Description: This is a collection of essays on the development of Buddhism in Japan in response to the West during the"modern" period from the time of the Meiji Restoration to the end of World War II (1868-1945).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Editors' Introduction:; title: Studies on Modern Buddhism in Contemporary Japan  -- Hayashi Makoto, Otani Eiichi and Paul L. Swanson; title: Shin Buddhist Contributions to the Japanese Enlightenment Movement of the Early 1870s  -- Mick Deneckere; title: The Movement Called "New Buddhism" in Meiji Japan  -- Ōtani Eiichi; title: The Age of Teaching: Buddhism, the Proselytization of Citizens, the Cultivation of Monks, and the Education of Laypeople during the Formative Period of Modern Japan  -- Tanigawa Yutaka; title: Suzuki Daisetsu and Swedenborg: A Historical Background  -- Yoshinaga Shin'ichi; title: Takagi Kenmyō and Buddhist Socialism: A Meiji Misfit and Martyr  -- Paul L. Swanson; title: Religious Studies and Religiously Affiliated Universities  -- Hayashi Makoto; title: The Insect in the Lion's Body: Kaneko Daiei and the Question of Authority in Modern Buddhism -- Jeff Schroeder.