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Article: Toward a Contemporary Understanding of Pure Land Buddhism: Creating a Shin Buddhist Theology in a Religiously Plural World. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
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- Buddhist-Christian Studies
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- January 1, 2002
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TOWARD A CONTEMPORARY UNDERSTANDING OF PURE LAND BUDDHISM: CREATING A SHIN BUDDHIST THEOLOGY IN A RELIGIOUSLY PLURAL WORLD. Edited by Dennis Hirota. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. 257 pp.
This work, which proposes to make Shin Buddhism relevant to the contemporary world, is significant for both historical and theological reasons. Historically, the principal essays open up a new phase in the history of Shin Buddhism, for they break the mold of traditional Shin dogmatics, constricted by its emic quality and conservatism since the early Tokugawa Period (1600-1868). Theologically, they cover areas heretofore neglected by Japanese Shin scholastics ...