The Category of 'Religion' in Contemporary Japan Shūkyō and Temple Buddhism /

• Main Author: Horii, Mitsutoshi (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Religion and sociology.; Buddhism.; Ethnology-Asia.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Sociology of Religion.; Asian Culture.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.

This book critically examines the term 'religion' (shūkyō) as a social category within the sociological context of contemporary Japan. Whereas the nineteenth-century construction of shūkyō has been critically studied by many, the same critical approach has not been extended to the cont...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. A 'Critical Religion' Approach to Japanese 'Religion(s)'
• 3. Critical Reflections on the Category 'Religion' in Japan. - 4. 'Religion' in the Popular Discourse. - 5. Temple Buddhism and the Japanese Social Classification: A Brief Historical Overview. - 6. The Construction of Shūkyōka. - 7. Life Stories and Identities of Nichiren-shū priests. - 8. Negotiating with 'Shūkyō' in the Context of the 'Religious Corporation'. - 9. Conclusion. .