Japanese Religion: The eBook
Contents
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Preface
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Chapter 1 Encountering the Japanese Religious World: Introduction
- Why Study Japanese Religion?
- Japanese Language
- Observing Religion in Japan
- What Is Religion?
- How Religious Is Japan?
- Key Points You Need To Know
- Further Reading
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Chapter 2 The Past in the Present: Vignettes of Japanese Spiritual Life
- The Daijosai
- A Typical Shinto Shrine
- The Great Buddha of Nara
- Toji Shingon Temple
- The Enryakuji
- Chionin
- Higashi Honganji
- Daitokuji
- Nichiren Buddhism
- The Martyrs Monument in Nagasaki
- Tenri City
- Postscript: Jizo
- Key Points You Need To Know
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Chapter 3 The Way of the Kami: Shinto Then and Now
- The Grand Shrine of Ise
- What Is a Kami?
- The Inari and Miwa Shrines
- The Meiji, Togo, and Nogi Shrines
- The Yasukuni and Tenjin Shrines
- The Shinto Year
- General Features of Shinto
- The Meaning of Shinto
- Key Points You Need To Know
- Further Reading
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Interlude Introduction to Buddhism
- The Enlightened One
- Mahayana Buddhism
- Yogacara
- Key Points You Need To Know
- Further Reading
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Chapter 4 Early Times: Pre-Buddhist Japan and How Buddhism Arrived
- Japan Before Buddhism
- The Nara Period (710-794)
- Elite and Popular Buddhism
- Key Points You Need To Know
- Further Reading
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Chapter 5 Magic Mountains and the Old Court: Heian Buddhism and its Culture
- The World Above the Clouds
- Heian Buddhist Schools
- Shingon
- Tendai
- Heian Shinto
- Heian Popular Religion
- Key Points You Need To Know
- Further Reading
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Chapter 6 Warrior Culture, Simple Faith: The Kamakura Buddhist Reformation
- The End of an Age
- The New Men
- The World of the Samurai
- Motifs of Kamakura Religion
- Pure Land
- Honen and Jodo-Shu
- Shinran and Jodo Shinshu
- Nichiren
- Six Places of Rebirth
- The Letter of Hojo Shigetoki
- Key Points You Need To Know
- Further Reading
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Chapter 7 Swords and Satori: Zen and its Culture
- A Zen Experience
- Basic Zen
- Eisai and Rinzai Zen
- Muromachi Zen Culture
- Bushido
- Later Zen
- Overseas Zen
- Key Points You Need To Know
- Further Reading
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Chapter 8 Christ and Confucius: The West Arrives, and then Japan Turns Inward
- The Country at War
- The Warlords and the Coming of Christianity
- The Tokugawa Peace
- A Neo-Confucian Society
- Peasant Philosophers
- The Renewal of Shinto
- Pilgrimage to Ise
- Religion and Popular Culture
- Town and Country
- Key Points You Need To Know
- Further Reading
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Chapter 9 The Rising Sun and the Dark Valley: From the Meiji Restoration until 1945
- Behind the The Meiji Restoration
- Between Two Worlds
- The Old and the New
- The Emperor as Religion
- Meiji Buddhism
- Christianity Returns to Japan
- The Dark Valley
- National Foundations
- Key Points You Need To Know
- Further Reading
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Chapter 10 Chanting and Dancing: Shugendo and the “New Religions” of Japan
- Tenrikyo
- Konkokyo
- The Omoto Group
- The Nichiren Group
- The “New” New Religions
- Common Characteristics of the New Religions
- Key Points You Need To Know
- Further Reading
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Chapter 11 Pilgrimages: Religion in Japan 1945 to Now
- Religion Under the Occupation
- New Thinking About Buddhism
- New Roles for Buddhist Women
- Tradition Continues
- Homelands of the Heart
- Spiritual Achievement
- Symbols and Forms
- The Sacred in the Ordinary
- Japan a New World Center of Popular Culture
- Key Points You Need To Know
- Further Reading
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Appendix I Membership figures for Japanese Religions
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Appendix II Japanese Religion Timeline