The social dimension of Shin Buddhism
By: edited by Ugo Dessi
Series: Numen book series, studies in the history of religions
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004186538
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Shin Buddhism and Japanese Society / Ugo Dessi; title: Socio-economic impacts of Honen's Pure Land doctrines: an inquiry into the interplay between Buddhist teachings and institutions / Martin Repp; title: Shin Buddhism and Burakumin in the Edo period / Galen Amstutz; title: Shinshu studies and the legacy of liberal thought in Japan / Melissa Anne-Marie Curley; title: To lament the self: the ethical ideology of Takeuchi Ryo'on (1891-1968) and the Otani-ha movement against Buraku discrimination / Jessica L. Main; title: Shin Buddhism and gender: the discourse on gender discrimination and related reforms / Simone Heidegger; title: Speaking through the media: Shin Buddhism, popular culture and the Internet / Elisabetta Porcu; title: Shin Buddhism and globalization: attitudes toward the political subsystem and pluralism at the organizational and individual levels / Ugo Dessi.