The social dimension of Shin Buddhism
By: edited by Ugo Dessì
Series: Numen book series, studies in the history of religions -- v. 129; Studies in the history of religions -- 129.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden, The Netherlands; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9789004186538
Subjects: Social aspects; Shin (Sect); Religion and sociology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Shin Buddhism and Japanese society  -- Ugo Dessì; title: Socio-economic impacts of Hōnen'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: Shinshū studies and the legacy of liberal thought in Japan  -- Melissa Anne-Marie Curley; title: To lament the self : the ethical ideology of Takeuchi Ryō'on (1891-1968) and the Ōtani-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 Dessì.