Since the late nineteenth century, religious ideas and practices in
Japan have become increasingly intertwined with those associated
with mental health and healing. This relationship developed against
the backdrop of a far broader, and deeply consequential meeting:
between Japan's long-standing, Chinese-influenced intellectual and
institutional forms, and the politics, science, philosophy, and
religion of the post-Enlightenment West. In striving to craft a
modern society and culture that could exist on terms with - rather
than be subsumed by - western power and influence, Japan became
home to a religion--psy dialogue informed by pressing political
priorities and rapidly shifting cultural concerns. This book
provides a historically contextualized introduction to the dialogue
between religion and psychotherapy in modern Japan. In doing so, it
draws out connections between developments in medicine, government
policy, Japanese religion and spirituality, social and cultural
criticism, regional dynamics, and gender relations. The chapters
all focus on the meeting and intermingling of religious with
psychotherapeutic ideas and draw on a wide range of case studies
including: how temple and shrine 'cures' of early modern Japan
fared in the light of German neuropsychiatry; how Japanese Buddhist
theories of mind, body, and self-cultivation negotiated with the
findings of western medicine; how Buddhists, Christians, and other
organizations and groups drew and redrew the lines between
religious praxis and psychological healing; how major European
therapies such as Freud's fed into self-consciously Japanese
analyses of and treatments for the ills of the age; and how
distress, suffering, and individuality came to be reinterpreted
across the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, from the
southern islands of Okinawa to the devastated northern
neighbourhoods of the Tohoku region after the earthquake, tsunami,
and nuclear disasters of March 2011. Religion and Psychotherapy in
Modern Japan will be welcomed by students and scholars working
across a broad range of subjects, including Japanese culture and
society, religious studies, psychology and psychotherapy, mental
health, and international history.
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