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SAGE PUBLISHING Japanese Religions 4-Volume Set (Series Sage Benchmarks In Religious Studies) by DOLCE
This set, as a collection of representative studies on Japanese Religions, illustrates the diversity and complexity of the Japanese religious experience, past and contemporary, while at the same time offering an overview of the most updated research in the field. The themes selected promote avenues of analysis that place the religious phenomenon in its socio-historical and cultural context. The selection demonstrates the range of religious practices and the contexts in which these practices are performed, with the aim of counterbalancing the traditional foci on either theological (doctrinal) studies or ethnographic studies only. This collection affords a more comprehensive and accurate understanding of the nature and practice of Japanese religiosity. The framework in which the material is presented also offers an alternative to the usual chronological organization of works on Japanese religions, and to traditional arrangements of works on East Asian religions in general according to the categories of Buddhism, Confucianism, Shinto and Christianity. Although these traditional approaches are covered in the first volume, the set as a whole stresses the practice of religion, which stretches across traditions and denominations, and the pre-modern/modern divide. VOLUME 1: THE CRITICAL DISCOURSE ON JAPANESE RELIGIONS: FIELDS OF ENQUIRT AND METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHESModern Japan and the Science of Religions - Michael PyeThe Establishment of Modern Shintology and the Role of Tanaka Yoshito - Jun'ichi IsomaeBuddhism in the History of Japanese Religion: Research History and Research Methods - Fumihiko SuekiComparative Perspectives on the Emergence of Jind? and Shinto - Mark Teeuwen,Shugendo: Japanese Mountain Religion - State of the Field and Bibliographic Review - Gaynor SekimoriFolk Religion and its Contemporary Issues - Noriko KawahashiReligious Dimensions of Confucianism: Cosmology and Cultivation - Mary Evelyn TuckerChronologies, Commonalities and Alternative Status in Japanese New Religious Movements: Defining NRMS outside the Western Cul-De-Sac - Ian ReaderJapan's Ignored Cultural Revolution: The Separation of Shinto and Buddhist Divinities In Meiji (shimbutsu bunri) and a Case Study: T?nomine - Allan GrapardThe Establishment of Early Modern Buddhism - Satoshi SoneharaThe Commercialization of the Sacred: The Structural Evolution of Religious Communities in Japan - Susumu Shimazono"Zen Is Not Buddhism": Recent Japanese Critiques of Buddha-Nature - Paul SwansonThe Buddhist Icon and the Modern Gaze - Bernard FaureHistoriographical Issues in the Studies of the "Christian Century" in Japan - Ikuo HigashibabaNew Age and New Spiritual Movements: The role of Spiritual Intellectuals - Susumu ShimazonoThe Death and Rebirth of Buddhism in Contemporary Japan - George Tanabe, JrVOLUME 2: THE PRACTICE OF RELIGIONORGANIZATION AND INSTITUTIONAL PRACTICESThe Temple/Juridical Person: Law and the Temple in Japan - Stephen CovellJinja Honch? and Shrine Shint? policy - Mark TeeuwenWarden + Salaryman + Virtuoso = Priests: Paradigms within Japanese Shinto for Religious Specialists and Institutions - John NelsonThe Cult of Mount Atago and the Atago Confraternities - Anne BouchyPOLITICAL AGENCY AND THE STATEThe Development of State Ritual in Ancient Japan - Shoji OkadaThe Emperor's New Robes: Processes of Resignification in Shingon Imperial Rituals - Fabio RambelliThe Imperial Law and the Buddhist Law - Kuroda ToshioAnti-Christian Ideas and National Ideology: Inoue Enryo and Inoue Tetsujiro's Mobilization of Sectarian History in Meiji Japan - Kiri ParamoreProtect the Dharma, Protect the Country: Buddhist War Responsibility and Social Ethics - Christopher IvesNichiren's Activist Heirs: S?ka Gakkai, Rissh? K?seikai and Nipponzan My?h?ji - Jacqueline StoneConstitutional Revision and Japanese Religions - Helen HardacreConsensus Shattered: Japanese Paradigm Shifts and Moral Panic in the Post-Aum Era - Ian ReaderTIME, HISTORY AND MYTHShortening the Path: Early Tendai Interpretations of the Realization of Buddhahood in This Very Body (Sokushin J?butsu) - Paul GronerOn the Use of Prophecy in Mediaeval Japan - Lucia Dolce1999 and Beyond: The Use of Nostradamus' Prophecies by Japanese Religions - Robert KisalaRevisioning Japanese Religiosity: Tezuka Osamu's Hi no Tori (The Phoenix) - Mark MacWilliamsVOLUME 3: THE PRACTICE OF RELIGIONSACRED SPACEGeosophia, Geognosis, and Geopiety: Orders of Significance in Japanese Representations of space - Allan GrapardMandala, Mandala on the Wall: Variations of Usage in the Shingon School - David GardinerMapping the "Divine Country:" Sacred Geography and International Concerns in Mediaeval Japan - Lucia DolceFrom Religious Conformity to Innovation: New Ideas of Religious Journey and Holy Places - Nobutaka InoueThe Dead and the Living in the Land of Peace: A Sociology of the Shrine - John BreenLITERARY AND VISUAL NARRATIVESSaigy? and the Buddhist Value of Nature (Part I) - William LaFleurThe Inflatable, Collapsible Kingdom of Retribution: A Primer on Japanese Hell Imagery and Imagination - Caroline HirasawaJapanese Modern Religious Manga - Matthew EynonMapping Sectarian Identity: Onj?ji's Statue of Shinra My?jin - Christine GuthSwitching Sites and Identity: The Founder's Statue at the Zen Buddhist Temple K?rin'in - Gregory LevineBuddhist Material Culture, "Indianism," and the Construction of Pan-Asian Buddhism in Prewar Japan - Richard JaffeArt and New Religions: From Deguchi Onisaburo to the Miho Museum - Nancy StalkerGENDERED PRACTICESTrends in the Study of Women and Buddhism - Junko NishiguchiJizoku (Priests' Wives) In S?t? Zen Buddhism: An Ambiguous Category - Noriko KawahashiStrategies of Survival: Women, Abortion, and Popular Religion in Contemporary Japan - Meredith UnderwoodThe Life of Shamanness: Scenes from the Shamanism of Northeastern Japan in Folk Beliefs in Modern Japan - Kunimitsu KawamuraFemale Pilgrims and Mt. Fuji: Changing Perspectives on the Exclusion of Women - Fumiko MiyazakiVOLUME 4: THE PRACTICE OF RELIGIONPERFORMATIVE PRACTICES AND RITUAL DYNAMICSThinking through Shingon Ritual - Robert SharfThe Shingon Subordinating Fire Offering for Amit?bha, "Amida Kei Ai Goma" - Richard PayneSeeking the Pure Land in Heian Japan: The Practices of the Monks of the Nijugo Zammai-e - Robert RhodesThe Akinomine of Haguro Shugendo: A Historical Perspective - Gaynor SekimoriRitual as an Instrument of Political Resistance in Rural Japan - Scott SchnellThe Transformation of Healing in the Japanese New Religions - Helen HardacreThe Worship of Celestial Bodies in Japan: Politics, Rituals and Icons - Lucia DolcePerforming Power: On the Nature of the Japanese Ritual Dance Performance of Yamabushi Kagura - Irit AverbuchMind and Morality in Nineteenth-Century Japanese Religions: Misogi-kyo and Maruyama-kyo - Janine SawadaIn Search of a New Interpretation of Ascetic Experience - Massimo RaveriEXORCISING DEATHOn Placating the Gods and Pacifying the Populace: The Case of the Gion "Gory?" Cult - Neil McMullinBuy Me a Bride: Death and Exchange in Northern Japanese Bride Doll Marriage - Ellen SchattschneiderShint? Mortuary Rites in Contemporary Japan - Elizabeth KenneyJapanese Christians and the World of the Dead - Mark MullinsZen in the Art of Funerals: Ritual Salvation in Japanese Buddhism - William Bodiford