Neither Monk nor Layman (eBook)

Clerical Marriage in Modern Japanese Buddhism

Richard M. Jaffe (Autor)

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2021
320 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23109-9 (ISBN)

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Buddhism comes in many forms, but in Japan it stands apart from all the rest in one most striking way--the monks get married. In Neither Monk nor Layman, the most comprehensive study of this topic in any language, Richard Jaffe addresses the emergence of an openly married clergy as a momentous change in the history of modern Japanese Buddhism. He demonstrates, in clear and engaging prose, that this shift was not an easy one for Japanese Buddhists. Yet the transformation that began in the early Meiji period (1868-1912)--when monks were ordered by government authorities to adopt common surnames and allowed to marry, to have children, and to eat meat--today extends to all the country's Buddhist denominations. Jaffe traces the gradual acceptance of clerical marriage by Japanese Buddhists from the premodern emergence of the "e;clerical marriage problem"e; in the Edo period to its widespread practice by the start of the Second World War. In doing so he considers related issues such as the dissolution of clerical status and the growing domestication of Japanese temple life. This book reveals the deep contradictions between sectarian teachings that continue to idealize renunciation and a clergy whose lives closely resemble those of their parishioners in modern Japanese society. It will attract not only scholars of religion and of Japanese history, but all those interested in the encounter-conflict between regimes of modernization and religious institutions and the fate of celibate religious practices in the twentieth century.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.6.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Buddhisms: A Princeton University Press Series
• Reihe/Serie: Buddhisms: A Princeton University Press Series
• Zusatzinfo: 7 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: adultery • Agonshū • Akizuki Tanetatsu alcoholic beverages • Andō Yoshinori • Apologetics • Arai Nissatsu • Bakumatsu • Bodhisattva • Buddhism • Buddhism in Japan • Buddhist Ethics • buddhist temple • buddhist texts • bureaucrat • Butsuryūkō • celibacy • central government • Chadwick, David • Chiba Shunrei • Christian • Christianity • christianity in japan • Chūsonji • Civil Society • Clergy • Clerical celibacy • Clerical Discipline • Clerical marriage • Confucianism • Daichidoron • Daimyo • Date Mitsuyoshi • Decriminalization • Dharma transmission • Disparagement • Dispensationalism • Doctrine • edict • Edo Period • Eiheiji • Enmeiin Incident • Evolutionary Theory • Exemption (church) • Fleming, William • fornication • freedom of religion • Fukase Shunji • Fukushima Masao • Gautama Buddha • Genkaku • Gratitude • Haga Shōji • Haibutsu kishaku • Harunasan • Higashi Honganji • Hirata Atsutane • Home Ministry • Honganji • Householder (Buddhism) • Human Rights • imperial government • imperialism, Japanese • Inoue Enryō • Ishida Mizumaro • Iwakura Tomomi • Jainism • Jizō bodhisattva • Kaimyōji Shōtsū • Kamei Koremi • Kawamura Seiji • Kita Sadakichi • Komazawa University • Koseki • Kōsen Mujaku • Kuroda Kiyotsuna • Laity • lay bodhisattvas • layperson • Lecture • Literature • Manase Gensaku • Mappō tōmyōki • marriage • Matono Hansuke • Matsudaira Yoshinaga • Meiji period • Memorial service (Orthodox) • Middle Ages • military draft • Minister (Christianity) • Missionary • Mokuan shōtō • Morality • Morioka Kiyomi • Nagayama Kōryū • New Religious Movement • newspaper • Nichiren • Nishi Honganji • North Carolina State University • oda nobunaga • Ōhara Shigetomi • Okamoto Yasutaka • Ordination • Ototachibana Hime • Parish • Patriarchs (Bible) • Precedent • Precept • proclamation • Promulgation • Proscription • Proselytism • Protestantism • Reiyūkai • Religion • Religion in Japan • Religious Denomination • Religious Organization • Rengekai • Ryōken • Sasaki Gihan • Schools of Buddhism • secondary source • sect • Secularism • Secularization • Seikaku • Seishi • Sentient beings (Buddhism) • Sexual Desire (book) • Shaku (ritual baton) • Shingon Buddhism • Shinran • Shinto • spouse • State law (United States) • Suggestion • Supporter • Surname • surplice • Systematization (Romania) • Tanaka Chigaku • tendai • The Buddhist (TV channel) • tokugawa ieyasu • tokugawa shogunate • Tonsure • Toyotomi Hideyoshi • Tripi?aka • Writing • Yamabushi • Yoshiwara
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23109-5 / 0691231095
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23109-9 / 9780691231099