Recently added articles from Japanese Journal of Religious Studies:
Zen and the Art of Nourishing Life: Labor, Exhaustion, and the Malady of Meditation
Jul 01, 2008; ... In his Yasenkanna and other writings Zen master Hakuin Ekaku (1686-1769) relies on two seemingly conflicting analogies to speak of the art of nourishing life (yojo). On the one hand, he maintains that vital energy (ki) must be stored in the cinnabar field (tanden). On the other hand, he ...
Early Japanese Christian Thought Reexamined: Confucian Ethics, Catholic Authority, and the Issue of Faith in the Scholastic Theories of Habian, Gomez, and Ricci
Jul 01, 2008; ... Many late sixteenth/early seventeenth century Japanese Christian texts worked directly within arguments that could be found concurrently in Confucian, syncretist, and other traditions in Japan at this time. Japanese Christian thought has often been characterized as an example of the ...
Against the Ghosts of Recent Past: Meiji Scholarship and the Discourse on Edo-Period Buddhist Decadence
Jul 01, 2008; ... This article examines the process by which the academic discourse on the decadence of early modern Buddhism was developed, especially in the context of Meiji Japan (1868-1912). The predominant framework in which much of the modern research on Edo Buddhism took place was informed, grosso modo, by ...
Household Altars in Contemporary Japan: Rectifying Buddhist "Ancestor Worship" with Home Décor and Consumer Choice
Jul 01, 2008; ... In Japan, where organized religion is increasingly viewed with a critical eye, one of the country's most enduring social and religious traditions-commemorating ancestral spirits-is undergoing rapid change. The highly competitive market for household altars is the source of innovative and ...
Mahikari in Context: Kamigakari, Chinkon kishin, and Psychical Investigation in Omoto-lineage Religions
Jul 01, 2008; ... Adherents are taught that Mahikari originated from divine revelations that Okada Yoshikazu received during a spontaneous episode of kamigakari in 1959, and academic studies generally present the view that it is a derivative of Sekai Kyuseikyo and Omoto. From the perspective of adherents, if not ...
A Day in the Life: Two Recent Works on Dogen's Shobogenzo "Gyoji" [Sustained Practice] Fascicle
Jul 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes formulae omitted.) Ishii Shudo ..., Shobogenzo [Gyoji] ni manabu ... Kyoto: Zen Bunka Kenkyujo, 2007. 620 pp. ¥2,300, paper. isbn 978-4-88182-219-7. Yasuraoka Kosaku ... trans., Shobogenzo [Gyoji] jo ... Tokyo: Kodansha, 2002. 455 pp. ¥1,300, paper ...
Iron Eyes: The Life and Teachings of Obaku Zen Master Tetsugen Doko
Jul 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes formulae omitted.) Helen Baroni, Iron Eyes: The Life and Teachings of Obaku Zen Master Tetsugen DokoAlbany: State University of New York Press, 2006. 259 pp. Paperback, $25.95. isbn-10: 0-7914-6892-5, isbn-13: 978-0-791468920. BEYOND THE MUCH revered ...
Dogen on Meditation and Thinking: A Reflection on His View of Zen
Jul 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes formula omitted.) Hee-Jin Kim, Dogen on Meditation and Thinking: A Reflection on His View of ZenAlbany: State University of New York Press, 2007. xi + 169 pp. Paperback, $22.95. isbn-10: 0-7914-6926-2; isbn-13: 978-0791469262. SUMMARIZING his earlier book ...
Emptiness and Temporality: Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Poetics
Jul 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes formulae omitted.) Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen, Emptiness and Temporality: Buddhism and Medieval Japanese PoeticsStanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. 224 pp. Hardcover, $55.00. isSbnN-10: 0804748888, isSbnN-13: 978-0804748889. 2008 HAS BEEN a good ...
Prophet Motive: Deguchi Onisaburo, Oomoto, and the Rise of New Religions in Imperial Japan
Jul 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes formulae omitted.) Nancy K. Stalker, Prophet Motive: Deguchi Onisaburo, Oomoto, and the Rise of New Religions in Imperial JapanUniversity of Hawai'i Press, 2008. x + 265 pp. Cloth, $49.00. isbn: 978-0-8248-3172-1; paper, $26.00. isbn: ...
Sacred Koyasan: A Pilgrimage to the Mountain Temple of Saint Kobo Daishi and the Great Sun Buddha
Jul 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes formulae omitted.) Philip L. Nicoloff, Sacred Koyasan: A Pilgrimage to the Mountain Temple of Saint Kobo Daishi and the Great Sun BuddhaAlbany, ny: State University of New York Press, 2008. xiii+ 392 pp. Hardcover, $89.50/L46.74. isbn: 978-0-7914-7259-0; Paperback, ...
Yasukuni, the War Dead, and the Struggle for Japan's Past
Jul 01, 2008; ... John Breen, ed., Yasukuni, the War Dead, and the Struggle for Japan's PastNew York: Columbia University Press, 2008, 240 pp. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-70042-9. IT CAN BE DIFFICULT to convey "the real complexity of Yasukuni," as John Breen, both editor and contributor to this volume, ...
Japanese Saints: Mormons in the Land of the Rising Sun
Jul 01, 2008; ... John P. Hoffman, Japanese Saints: Mormons in the Land of the Rising SunLanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2007. 231 pp. Hardcover, $70.00. ISBN-10: 0-7391-1689-4; ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-1689-0. IN JAPANESE SAINTS: Mormons in the Land of the Rising Sun, John Hoffman explores the very ...
The Japanese Arts and Self-cultivation
Jul 01, 2008; ... Robert E. Carter, The Japanese Arts and Self-cultivationAlbany: State University of New York Press, 2008. 214 pp. Hardback, $53.50. ISBN: 978-0-7914-7253-8; Paperback, $17.95. ISBN: 978-0-7914-7254-5. THE EASY STYLE of writing and the information contained in The Japanese Arts and ...
Converging Ways: Conversion and Belonging in Buddhism and Christianity
Jul 01, 2008; ... John D'Arcy May, ed. Converging Ways: Conversion and Belonging in Buddhism and ChristianitySankt Ottilien: Eos, 2007. 207 pp. [euro]15.80. ISBN: 978-3-8306-7251-7. THIS BOOK AROSE out of the sixth conference of the European Network of Buddhist- Christian Studies at the abbey of St ....