Japanese Religion: The eBook by Robert Ellwood

Contents

  1. Preface

  2. Chapter 1 Encountering the Japanese Religious World: Introduction

    1. Why Study Japanese Religion?
    2. Japanese Language
    3. Observing Religion in Japan
    4. What Is Religion?
    5. How Religious Is Japan?
    6. Key Points You Need To Know
    7. Further Reading

  3. Chapter 2 The Past in the Present: Vignettes of Japanese Spiritual Life

    1. The Daijosai
    2. A Typical Shinto Shrine
    3. The Great Buddha of Nara
    4. Toji Shingon Temple
    5. The Enryakuji
    6. Chionin
    7. Higashi Honganji
    8. Daitokuji
    9. Nichiren Buddhism
    10. The Martyrs Monument in Nagasaki
    11. Tenri City
    12. Postscript: Jizo
    13. Key Points You Need To Know

  4. Chapter 3 The Way of the Kami: Shinto Then and Now

    1. The Grand Shrine of Ise
    2. What Is a Kami?
    3. The Inari and Miwa Shrines
    4. The Meiji, Togo, and Nogi Shrines
    5. The Yasukuni and Tenjin Shrines
    6. The Shinto Year
    7. General Features of Shinto
    8. The Meaning of Shinto
    9. Key Points You Need To Know
    10. Further Reading

  5. Interlude Introduction to Buddhism

    1. The Enlightened One
    2. Mahayana Buddhism
    3. Yogacara
    4. Key Points You Need To Know
    5. Further Reading

  6. Chapter 4 Early Times: Pre-Buddhist Japan and How Buddhism Arrived

    1. Japan Before Buddhism
    2. The Nara Period (710-794)
    3. Elite and Popular Buddhism
    4. Key Points You Need To Know
    5. Further Reading

  7. Chapter 5 Magic Mountains and the Old Court: Heian Buddhism and its Culture

    1. The World Above the Clouds
    2. Heian Buddhist Schools
    3. Shingon
    4. Tendai
    5. Heian Shinto
    6. Heian Popular Religion
    7. Key Points You Need To Know
    8. Further Reading

  8. Chapter 6 Warrior Culture, Simple Faith: The Kamakura Buddhist Reformation

    1. The End of an Age
    2. The New Men
    3. The World of the Samurai
    4. Motifs of Kamakura Religion
    5. Pure Land
    6. Honen and Jodo-Shu
    7. Shinran and Jodo Shinshu
    8. Nichiren
    9. Six Places of Rebirth
    10. The Letter of Hojo Shigetoki
    11. Key Points You Need To Know
    12. Further Reading

  9. Chapter 7 Swords and Satori: Zen and its Culture

    1. A Zen Experience
    2. Basic Zen
    3. Eisai and Rinzai Zen
    4. Muromachi Zen Culture
    5. Bushido
    6. Later Zen
    7. Overseas Zen
    8. Key Points You Need To Know
    9. Further Reading

  10. Chapter 8 Christ and Confucius: The West Arrives, and then Japan Turns Inward

    1. The Country at War
    2. The Warlords and the Coming of Christianity
    3. The Tokugawa Peace
    4. A Neo-Confucian Society
    5. Peasant Philosophers
    6. The Renewal of Shinto
    7. Pilgrimage to Ise
    8. Religion and Popular Culture
    9. Town and Country
    10. Key Points You Need To Know
    11. Further Reading

  11. Chapter 9 The Rising Sun and the Dark Valley: From the Meiji Restoration until 1945

    1. Behind the The Meiji Restoration
    2. Between Two Worlds
    3. The Old and the New
    4. The Emperor as Religion
    5. Meiji Buddhism
    6. Christianity Returns to Japan
    7. The Dark Valley
    8. National Foundations
    9. Key Points You Need To Know
    10. Further Reading

  12. Chapter 10 Chanting and Dancing: Shugendo and the “New Religions” of Japan

    1. Tenrikyo
    2. Konkokyo
    3. The Omoto Group
    4. The Nichiren Group
    5. The “New” New Religions
    6. Common Characteristics of the New Religions
    7. Key Points You Need To Know
    8. Further Reading

  13. Chapter 11 Pilgrimages: Religion in Japan 1945 to Now

    1. Religion Under the Occupation
    2. New Thinking About Buddhism
    3. New Roles for Buddhist Women
    4. Tradition Continues
    5. Homelands of the Heart
    6. Spiritual Achievement
    7. Symbols and Forms
    8. The Sacred in the Ordinary
    9. Japan a New World Center of Popular Culture
    10. Key Points You Need To Know
    11. Further Reading

  14. Appendix I Membership figures for Japanese Religions

  15. Appendix II Japanese Religion Timeline

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