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A comprehensive glossary and reference work with more than a
thousand entries on Shinto ranging from brief definitions and
Japanese terms to short essays dealing with aspects of Shinto
practice, belief and institutions from early times up to the
present day.
This is a richly-illustrated study of 'The Oracles of the Three
Shrines', the name given to a hanging scroll depicting three
important Japanese shrine-deities and their respective oracle
texts. The scroll has evolved continuously in Japan for 600 years,
so different examples of it offer a series of 'windows' on
developments in Japanese religious belief and practice.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Buddhism in Asia was
transformed by the impact of colonial modernity and new
technologies and began to spread in earnest to the West.
Transnational networking among Asian Buddhists and early western
converts engendered pioneering attempts to develop new kinds of
Buddhism for a globalized world, in ways not controlled by any
single sect or region. Drawing on new research by scholars
worldwide, this book brings together some of the most extraordinary
episodes and personalities of a period of almost a century from
1860-1960. Examples include Indian intellectuals who saw Buddhism
as a homegrown path for a modern post-colonial future, poor whites
'going native' as Asian monks, a Brooklyn-born monk who sought to
convert Mussolini, and the failed 1950s attempt to train British
monks to establish a Thai sangha in Britain. Some of these stories
represent creative failures, paths not taken, which may show us
alternative possibilities for a more diverse Buddhism in a world
dominated by religious nationalisms. Other pioneers paved the way
for the mainstreaming of new forms of Buddhism in later decades, in
time for the post-1960s takeoff of 'global Buddhism'. This book was
originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Buddhism.
This is a richly-illustrated study of 'The Oracles of the Three
Shrines', the name given to a hanging scroll depicting three
important Japanese shrine-deities and their respective oracle
texts. The scroll has evolved continuously in Japan for 600 years,
so different examples of it offer a series of 'windows' on
developments in Japanese religious belief and practice.
This reference work contains over 1000 entries on Shinto, ranging
from brief definitions and Japanese terms to short essays dealing
with aspects of Shinto practice, belief and institutions from early
times up to the present day. Shinto regards itself as the ancient
indigenous tradition of Japan, yet has gone through transformations
even in the 20th century. The introduction considers the
problematic notion of "Shinto" itself, while the main body of the
dictionary explains terms relating to such matters as festivals,
shrines, rituals, "kami", Shinto-related religious movements,
significant events and key figures in the development of Shinto.
The book contains explanations of Shinto terms, coverage of the
dimensions of Shinto, and a religious studies approach to the
subject which deals with Shinto ideas and practices.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Buddhism in Asia was
transformed by the impact of colonial modernity and new
technologies and began to spread in earnest to the West.
Transnational networking among Asian Buddhists and early western
converts engendered pioneering attempts to develop new kinds of
Buddhism for a globalized world, in ways not controlled by any
single sect or region. Drawing on new research by scholars
worldwide, this book brings together some of the most extraordinary
episodes and personalities of a period of almost a century from
1860-1960. Examples include Indian intellectuals who saw Buddhism
as a homegrown path for a modern post-colonial future, poor whites
'going native' as Asian monks, a Brooklyn-born monk who sought to
convert Mussolini, and the failed 1950s attempt to train British
monks to establish a Thai sangha in Britain. Some of these stories
represent creative failures, paths not taken, which may show us
alternative possibilities for a more diverse Buddhism in a world
dominated by religious nationalisms. Other pioneers paved the way
for the mainstreaming of new forms of Buddhism in later decades, in
time for the post-1960s takeoff of 'global Buddhism'. This book was
originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Buddhism.
The Irish Buddhist is the biography of an extraordinary Irish
emigrant, sailor, and migrant worker who became a Buddhist monk and
anti-colonial activist in early twentieth-century Asia. Born in
Dublin in the 1850s, U Dhammaloka energetically challenged the
values and power of the British Empire and scandalized the colonial
establishment of the 1900s. He rallied Buddhists across Asia, set
up schools, and argued down Christian missionaries-often using
western atheist arguments. He was tried for sedition, tracked by
police and intelligence services, and died at least twice. His
story illuminates the forgotten margins and interstices of imperial
power, the complexities of class, ethnicity and religious belonging
in colonial Asia, and the fluidity of identity in the high
Victorian period. Too often, the story of the pan-Asian Buddhist
revival movement and Buddhism's remaking as a world religion has
been told 'from above,' highlighting scholarly writers,
middle-class reformers and ecclesiastical hierarchies. By turns
fraught, hilarious, pioneering, and improbable, Dhammaloka's
adventures 'from below' highlight the changing and contested
meanings of Buddhism in colonial Asia. Through his story, authors
Alicia Turner, Brian Bocking, and Laurence Cox offer a window into
the worlds of ethnic minorities and diasporas, transnational
networks, poor whites, and social movements. Dhammaloka's dramatic
life rewrites the previously accepted story of how Buddhism became
a modern global religion.
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