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Japanese temple Buddhism

by Covell, Stephen Grover,
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Series: Topics in contemporary Buddhism Published by : University of Hawaii Press, (Honolulu :) Physical details: xii, 256 p.
Subject(s): Buddhism -- Japan -- History -- 1945- | Buddhist priests -- Office -- Japan. | Electronic books.
Year: 2005
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-249) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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