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Religion

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Sojiji

Discipline, Compassion, and Enlightenment at a Japanese Zen Temple

By Joshua A. Irizarry
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Religion, Anthropology
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

An intimate and insightful look into the life of a head Sōtō Zen temple in 21st century Japan

The Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess

Daisaiin Senshi and Hosshin Wakashu

By Edward Kamens
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Religion
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Provides new translations and sensitive readings of the devotional Buddhist poems of Senshi, the Great Kamo Priestess of the Heian period

Shugendo

Essays on the Structure of Japanese Folk Religion

By Hitoshi Miyake
Edited by H. Earhart
Subjects: Religion, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

The first comprehensive English translation of a foundational work on Japanese asceticism and folk religion

Religion and Society in Nineteenth-Century Japan

A Study of the Southern Kanto Region, Using Late Edo and Early Meiji Gazetteers

By Helen Hardacre
Subjects: Religion, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

A detailed analysis of the structure of nineteenth-century Japanese religious institutions

Essays on the Modern Japanese Church

Christianity in Meiji Japan

By Aizan Yamaji
Translated by Grahan Squires & Graham Squires
Subjects: Religion, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Argues that Christianity played a critical role in the development of modern Japan

Writing and Renunciation in Medieval Japan

The Works of the Poet-Priest Kamo no Chomei

By Rajyashree Pandey
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Religion, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Challenges the rigid distinction between the religious and literary in medieval Japan

Rethinking Sorrow

Revelatory Tales of Late Medieval Japan

By Margaret Childs
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, Religion, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Provides fresh translations and readings of a small, coherent subgroup of short stories that describe how people were inspired to religious commitment

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