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xii, 256 p. ; 24 cm |
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Topics in contemporary Buddhism
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-249) and index |
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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 |
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Buddhism -- Japan -- 1945-
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Priests, Buddhist -- Japan -- Office
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