Format:
XII, 256 S
ISBN:
0824829670
,
0824828569
Series Statement:
Topics in contemporary Buddhism
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Temple Buddhism today: scholarly and popular images of corruptionLaity and the temple: past and present -- Trying to have it both ways: the laity in a world-renouncer organization? -- The contemporary priesthood: images of identity crisis -- New priests for new times? -- Coming to terms: temple wives and world-renouncers -- Money and the temple: law, taxes and the image of Buddhism -- The price of naming the dead: funerals, posthumous precept names, and changing views of the afterlife.
,
Temple Buddhism today: scholarly and popular images of corruption -- Laity and the temple: past and present -- Trying to have it both ways: the laity in a world-renouncer organization? -- The contemporary priesthood: images of identity crisis -- New priests for new times? -- Coming to terms: temple wives and world-renouncers -- Money and the temple: law, taxes and the image of Buddhism -- The price of naming the dead: funerals, posthumous precept names, and changing views of the afterlife
Language:
English
Subjects:
Theology
Keywords:
Japan
;
Buddhismus
;
Tempel
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0f3l8-aa
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0f3l8-aa
