Tokugawa Religion

Author : Robert Bellah
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781439119020

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Robert N. Bellah's classic study, Tokugawa Religion does for Japan what Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism did for the West. One of the foremost authorities on Japanese history and culture, Bellah explains how religion in the Tokugawa period (160-1868) established the foundation for Japan's modern industrial economy and dispels two misconceptions about Japanese modernization: that it began with Admiral Perry's arrival in 1868, and that it rapidly developed because of the superb Japanese ability for imitation. In this revealing work, Bellah shows how the native doctrines of Buddhism, Confucianism and Shinto encouraged forms of logic and understanding necessary for economic development. Japan's current status as an economic superpower and industrial model for many in the West makes this groundbreaking volume even more important today than when it was first published in 1957. With a new introduction by the author.

Author : Robert Neelly Bellah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Japan
ISBN : UOM:39015046848324

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Author : Nam-lin Hur
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781684174522

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Death and Social Order in Tokugawa Japan by Nam-lin Hur Pdf

"Buddhism was a fact of life and death during the Tokugawa period (1600–1868): every household was expected to be affiliated with a Buddhist temple, and every citizen had to be given a Buddhist funeral. The enduring relationship between temples and their affiliated households gave rise to the danka system of funerary patronage.This private custom became a public institution when the Tokugawa shogunate discovered an effective means by which to control the populace and prevent the spread of ideologies potentially dangerous to its power—especially Christianity. Despite its lack of legal status, the danka system was applied to the entire population without exception; it became for the government a potent tool of social order and for the Buddhist establishment a practical way to ensure its survival within the socioeconomic context of early modern Japan.In this study, Nam-lin Hur follows the historical development of the danka system and details the intricate interplay of social forces, political concerns, and religious beliefs that drove this “economy of death” and buttressed the Tokugawa governing system. With meticulous research and careful analysis, Hur demonstrates how Buddhist death left its mark firmly upon the world of the Tokugawa Japanese."

Author : Nam-lin Hur
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684173358

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Prayer and Play in Late Tokugawa Japan by Nam-lin Hur Pdf

The unique amalgam of prayer and play at the Sensōji temple in Edo is often cited as proof of the “degenerate Buddhism” of the Tokugawa period. This investigation of the economy and cultural politics of Sensōji, however, shows that its culture of prayer and play reflected changes taking place in Tokugawa Japan, particularly in the city of Edo. Hur’s reappraisal of prayer and play and their inherent connectedness provides a cultural critique of conventional scholarship on Tokugawa religion and shows how Edo commoners incorporated cultural politics into their daily lives through the pursuit of prayer and play.

Author : Robert N. Bellah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:841794530

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Tokugawa Religion by Robert N. Bellah Pdf

Author : Stefan Köck,Brigitte Pickl-Kolaczia,Bernhard Scheid
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350181083

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Religion, Power, and the Rise of Shinto in Early Modern Japan by Stefan Köck,Brigitte Pickl-Kolaczia,Bernhard Scheid Pdf

This book sheds new light on the relationship between religion and state in early modern Japan, and demonstrates the growing awareness of Shinto in both the political and the intellectual elite of Tokugawa Japan, even though Buddhism remained the privileged means of stately religious control. The first part analyses how the Tokugawa government aimed to control the populace via Buddhism and at the same time submitted Buddhism to the sacralization of the Tokugawa dynasty. The second part focuses on the religious protests throughout the entire period, with chapters on the suppression of Christians, heterodox Buddhist sects, and unwanted folk practitioners. The third part tackles the question of why early Tokugawa Confucianism was particularly interested in “Shinto” as an alternative to Buddhism and what “Shinto” actually meant from a Confucian stance. The final part of the book explores attempts to curtail the institutional power of Buddhism by reforming Shinto shrines, an important step in the so called “Shintoization of shrines” including the development of a self-contained Shinto clergy.

Author : Peter Nosco
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0824818652

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Confucianism and Tokugawa Culture by Peter Nosco Pdf

Author : Robert Neelly Bellah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Japan
ISBN : OCLC:890480346

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Tokugawa Religion by Robert Neelly Bellah Pdf

Author : Janine Anderson Sawada
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824890438

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Faith in Mount Fuji by Janine Anderson Sawada Pdf

Even a fleeting glimpse of Mount Fuji’s snow-capped peak emerging from the clouds in the distance evokes the reverence it has commanded in Japan from ancient times. Long considered sacred, during the medieval era the mountain evolved from a venue for solitary ascetics into a well-regulated pilgrimage site. With the onset of the Tokugawa period, the nature of devotion to Mount Fuji underwent a dramatic change. Working people from nearby Edo (now Tokyo) began climbing the mountain in increasing numbers and worshipping its deity on their own terms, leading to a widespread network of devotional associations known as Fujikō. In Faith in Mount Fuji Janine Sawada asserts that the rise of the Fuji movement epitomizes a broad transformation in popular religion that took place in early modern Japan. Drawing on existing practices and values, artisans and merchants generated new forms of religious life outside the confines of the sectarian establishment. Sawada highlights the importance of independent thinking in these grassroots phenomena, making a compelling case that the new Fuji devotees carved out enclaves for subtle opposition to the status quo within the restrictive parameters of the Tokugawa order. The founding members effectively reinterpreted materials such as pilgrimage maps, talismans, and prayer formulae, laying the groundwork for the articulation of a set of remarkable teachings by Jikigyō Miroku (1671–1733), an oil peddler who became one of the group’s leading ascetic practitioners. His writings fostered a vision of Mount Fuji as a compassionate parental deity who mandated a new world of economic justice and fairness in social and gender relations. The book concludes with a thought-provoking assessment of Jikigyō’s suicide on the mountain as an act of commitment to world salvation that drew on established ascetic practice even as it conveyed political dissent. Faith in Mount Fuji is a pioneering work that contains a wealth of in-depth analysis and original interpretation. It will open up new avenues of discussion among students of Japanese religions and intellectual history, and supply rich food for thought to readers interested in global perspectives on issues of religion and society, ritual culture, new religions, and asceticism.

Author : William H. Swatos
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0761989560

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Encyclopedia of Religion and Society by William H. Swatos Pdf

As the new millennium approaches, the sacred and profane interface, conflict, and intermingle in novel ways. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Society provides a guide map for these developments. From succinct, brief notes to essay-length entries, it covers world religions, religious perspectives on political and social issues, and religious leaders and scholars -- present and past -- in the United States and the world. This comprehensive volume is an essential reference for studies in the anthropology, psychology, politics, and sociology of religion. Topics include: abortion, adolescence, African-American religious experience, anthropology of religion, Buddhism, commitment, conversion, definition of religion, ecology movement, Emile Durkheim, ethnicity, fundamentalism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, new religious movements, organization, parish, Talcott Parsons, racism, research methods, Roman Catholicism, sexism, Unification Church, Max Weber, and many others.

Author : Robert Neelly Bellah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Japan
ISBN : OCLC:278178395

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Tokugawa Religion by Robert Neelly Bellah Pdf

Author : Robert Neelly Bellah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:610272477

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Tokugawa Religion by Robert Neelly Bellah Pdf

Author : Takashi Miura
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824880378

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Agents of World Renewal by Takashi Miura Pdf

This volume examines a category of Japanese divinities that centered on the concept of “world renewal” (yonaoshi). In the latter half of the Tokugawa period (1603–1867), a number of entities, both natural and supernatural, came to be worshipped as “gods of world renewal.” These included disgruntled peasants who demanded their local governments repeal unfair taxation, government bureaucrats who implemented special fiscal measures to help the poor, and a giant subterranean catfish believed to cause earthquakes to punish the hoarding rich. In the modern period, yonaoshi gods took on more explicitly anti-authoritarian characteristics. During a major uprising in Saitama Prefecture in 1884, a yonaoshi god was invoked to deny the legitimacy of the Meiji regime, and in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the new religion Ōmoto predicted an apocalyptic end of the world presided over by a messianic yonaoshi god. Using a variety of local documents to analyze the veneration of yonaoshi gods, Takashi Miura looks beyond the traditional modality of research focused on religious professionals, their institutions, and their texts to illuminate the complexity of a lived religion as practiced in communities. He also problematizes the association frequently drawn between the concept of yonaoshi and millenarianism, demonstrating that yonaoshi gods served as divine rectifiers of specific economic injustices and only later, in the modern period and within the context of new religions such as Ōmoto, were fully millenarian interpretations developed. The scope of world renewal, in other words, changed over time. Agents of World Renewal approaches Japanese religion through the new analytical lens of yonaoshi gods and highlights the necessity of looking beyond the boundary often posited between the early modern and modern periods when researching religious discourses and concepts.

Author : Richard John Bowring
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198795230

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In Search of the Way by Richard John Bowring Pdf

A history of intellectual and religious developments in Japan during the Tokugawa period (1582-1860), this volume deals with social, cultural, and religious interplay, primarily focusing on the Neo-Confucian search for the Way, a pattern of existence that could provide order for society at large, as well as self-fulfilment for the individual.

Author : Robert N. Bellah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:471756778

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Tokugawa Religion by Robert N. Bellah Pdf