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"Although East Asian religion is commonly characterized as "syncretic," the historical interaction of Buddhist, Confucian, and other traditions is often neglected by scholars of mainstream religious thought. In this thought-provoking study, Janine Sawada moves beyond conventional approaches to the history of Japanese religion by analyzing the ways in which Neo-Confucianism and Zen formed a popular synthesis in early modern Japan. She shows how Shingaku, a teaching founded by merchant Ishida Baigan, blossomed after his death into a widespread religious movement that selectively combined ideas and practices from these traditions. Drawing on new research into original Shingaku sources, Sawada challenges the view that the teaching was a facile "merchant ethic" by illuminating the importance of Shingaku mystical experience and its intimate relation to moral cultivation in the program developed by Baigan's successor, Teshima Toan."--BOOK JACKET. "This book also suggests the need for an approach to the history of Japanese education that accounts for the informal transmission of ideas as well as institutional schooling. Shingaku contributed to the development of Japanese education by effectively disseminating moral and religious knowledge on a large scale to the less-educated sectors of Tokugawa society. Sawada interprets the popularity of the movement as part of a general trend in early modern Japan in which ordinary people sought forms of learning that could be pursued in the context of daily life."--BOOK JACKET.

Shingaku --- Confucianism --- J1650 --- J1008.60 --- Religions --- Sekimon Shingaku --- Ethics --- History --- Japan: Philosophy -- ethics --- Japan: Philosophy -- history -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- Japan --- 18th century --- Shingaku. --- Confucianism - Japan - History - 18th century.

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In thirteen wide-ranging essays, scholars and students of Asian and women's studies will find a vivid exploration of how female roles and feminine identity have evolved over 350 years, from the Tokugawa era to the end of World War II. Starting from the premise that gender is not a biological given, but is socially constructed and culturally transmitted, the authors describe the forces of change in the construction of female gender and explore the gap between the ideal of womanhood and the reality of Japanese women's lives. Most of all, the contributors speak to the diversity that has characterized women's experience in Japan. This is an imaginative, pioneering work, offering an interdisciplinary approach that will encourage a reconsideration of the paradigms of women's history, hitherto rooted in the Western experience.

Women --- Feminism --- Employment --- History. --- #SBIB:316.346H20 --- #SBIB:39A11 --- #SBIB:39A75 --- #SBIB:95G --- J4176.80 --- J4353 --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- History --- Employment&delete& --- Positie van de vrouw in de samenleving: algemeen --- Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties --- Etnografie: Azië --- Geschiedenis van Azië (inclusief Arabische wereld, Nabije Oosten) --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- gender roles, women, feminism -- history --- Japan: Economy and industry -- labor and employment -- women --- Femmes --- Féminisme --- Histoire --- Travail --- Japan --- Féminisme --- Japon --- agriculture. --- artisan. --- bakufu. --- class. --- division of labor. --- domesticity. --- femininity. --- feminism. --- gender hierarchy. --- gender roles. --- gender studies. --- gender. --- gendered labor. --- handicrafts. --- household chores. --- household labor. --- japan. --- japanese women. --- meiji restoration. --- merchants. --- misogyny. --- onnagata. --- onnarashisa. --- otokorashisa. --- patriarchy. --- peasants. --- post war. --- preindustrial society. --- samurai. --- sexuality. --- shingaku. --- status. --- tokugawa. --- wealth. --- womanhood. --- women and labor. --- women in history. --- women in the workforce. --- womens studies. --- womens work. --- working women.