TY - BOOK ID - 5278797 TI - Religions of Japan in practice PY - 1999 SN - 0691057885 0691057893 0691214743 9780691057880 PB - Princeton: Princeton university press, DB - UniCat KW - Japan KW - Japon KW - Religion. KW - Religion KW - 299.52 KW - J1700 KW - Godsdiensten van Japan. Shintoisme KW - Japan: Religion -- general and history KW - 299.52 Godsdiensten van Japan. Shintoisme KW - Japan. KW - Religion, Primitive KW - Atheism KW - Irreligion KW - Religions KW - Theology KW - al-Yābān KW - Giappone KW - Government of Japan KW - Iapōnia KW - I︠A︡ponii︠a︡ KW - Japam KW - Japani KW - Japão KW - Japonia KW - Japonsko KW - Japonya KW - Jih-pen KW - Mư̄ang Yīpun KW - Nihon KW - Nihon-koku KW - Nihonkoku KW - Nippon KW - Nippon-koku KW - Nipponkoku KW - Prathēt Yīpun KW - Riben KW - State of Japan KW - Yābān KW - Yapan KW - Yīpun KW - Zhāpān KW - Япония KW - اليابان KW - يابان KW - 日本 KW - 日本国 KW - Amida Buddha. KW - Avalokitesvara. KW - Bodhidharma. KW - Buddha-nature. KW - Christianity. KW - Chuang-tzu. KW - Confucianism. KW - Eison. KW - Empress Suiko. KW - Esoteric Buddhism. KW - Genshin. KW - Heart Sutra. KW - Hōnen. KW - Ise Shrine. KW - Jōdo school. KW - Kūkai. KW - Lotus Sutra. KW - Nichiren. KW - Shingon Buddhism. KW - Taoism. KW - Tendai Buddhism. KW - Uan Dōnin. KW - Zaō. KW - ancestors. KW - dreams. KW - filial piety. KW - healing. KW - kami. KW - karma. KW - mappō. KW - miracles. KW - nembutsu. KW - original enlightenment. KW - precepts. KW - repentance. KW - yamabushi. KW - Śākyamuni. KW - Japan - Religion KW - Jepun KW - Japan: Religion in general KW - Yapon KW - Yapon Ulus KW - I︠A︡pon KW - Япон KW - I︠A︡pon Uls KW - Япон Улс UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5278797 AB - This anthology reflects a range of Japanese religions in their complex, sometimes conflicting, diversity. In the tradition of the Princeton Readings in Religions series, the collection presents documents (legends and miracle tales, hagiographies, ritual prayers and ceremonies, sermons, reform treatises, doctrinal tracts, historical and ethnographic writings), most of which have been translated for the first time here, that serve to illuminate the mosaic of Japanese religions in practice.George Tanabe provides a lucid introduction to the "patterned confusion" of Japan's religious practices. He has ordered the anthology's forty-five readings under the categories of "Ethical Practices," "Ritual Practices," and "Institutional Practices," moving beyond the traditional classifications of chronology, religious traditions (Shinto, Confucianism, Buddhism, etc.), and sects, and illuminating the actual orientation of people who engage in religious practices. Within the anthology's three broad categories, subdivisions address the topics of social values, clerical and lay precepts, gods, spirits, rituals of realization, faith, court and emperor, sectarian founders, wizards, and heroes, orthopraxis and orthodoxy, and special places. Dating from the eighth through the twentieth centuries, the documents are revealed to be open to various and evolving interpretations, their meanings dependent not only on how they are placed in context but also on how individual researchers read them. Each text is preceded by an introductory explanation of the text's essence, written by its translator. Instructors and students will find these explications useful starting points for their encounters with the varied worlds of practice within which the texts interact with readers and changing contexts.'Religions of Japan in Practice' is a compendium of relationships between great minds and ordinary people, abstruse theories and mundane acts, natural and supernatural powers, altruism and self-interest ER -