Secularities in Japan

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Secularities in Japan

edited by Ugo Dessì, Christoph Kleine

Brill, c2022

  • : [pbk]

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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)

"ISBN 978-90-04-51736-3 (hardback [i.e. paperback])"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references and index

Summary: "This volume brings together contributions that, from different disciplinary perspectives, highlight certain aspects and problems related to the configuration of the relationship between the religious and the secular in Japan. In the background stands the question of the historical path dependencies that lead to the formation of a specifically Japanese secularity. Based on the assumption that existing epistemic and social structures shape the way in which Western concepts of secularism were appropriated, the individual case studies demonstrate that the culturally specific appropriation of Western regulatory principles such as secularism has created problems that are of political relevance in contemporary Japan"-- Provided by publisher

Contents of Works

  • Formations of secularity in ancient Japan? : on cultural encounters, critical junctures, and path dependent processes / Christoph Kleine
  • Religion, medicine and the notion of charity in early Jesuit missionary pursuits in Buddhist Japan / Katja Triplett
  • Secularization and the jōruri plays : the decline of religious belief and the search for secular salvation in early modern Japan / Kawata Koh
  • "Even three-year-old children know that the source of enlightenment is not religion but science" : modern Japanese Buddhism between "religion" and "science," 1860s–1910s / Hans Martin Krämer
  • Practicing belonging? : non-religiousness in twenty-first century Japan / Fujiwara Satoko
  • World heritage, secularisation, and the new "public sacred" in East Asia / Aike P. Rots

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