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ISBN10: 069107495X, ISBN13: 9780691074955, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Hardcover Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2 [AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2001]
Princeton University Press, Date: 2002. Hardcover. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. 2002. Princeton University Press ISBN 069107495X 9780691074955 [US]
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ISBN10: 069107495X, ISBN13: 9780691074955, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Hardcover Buddhism comes in many forms, but in Japan it stands apart from all the rest in one most striking way--the monks get married. In Neither Monk nor Layman, the most comprehensive study of this topic in any language, Richard Jaffe addresses the emergence of an openly married clergy as a momentous change in the history of modern Japanese Buddhism. He demonstrates, in clear and engaging prose, that this shift was not an easy one for Japanese Buddhists. Yet the transformation that began in the early Meiji period (1868-1912)--when monks were ordered by government authorities to adopt common surnames and allowed to marry, to have children, and to eat meat--today extends to all the country's Buddhist denominations.Jaffe traces the gradual acceptance of clerical marriage by Japanese Buddhists from the premodern emergence of the "clerical marriage problem" in the Edo period to its widespread practice by the start of the Second World War. In doing so he considers related issues such as the dissolution of clerical status and the growing domestication of Japanese temple life. This book reveals the deep contradictions between sectarian teachings that continue to idealize renunciation and a clergy whose lives closely resemble those of their parishioners in modern Japanese society. It will attract not only scholars of religion and of Japanese history, but all those i ...
Princeton University Press. Used - Very Good. 2001. hardcover. Cloth, dj. xxiii & 288 pp. Slight shelf wear to dust jacket. Very Good. (Subject: Japan). Princeton University Press ISBN 069107495x 9780691074955 [US]
Princeton University Press 2002 Hard cover Very Good 2001. hardcover. Cloth, dj. xxiii & 288 pp. Slight shelf wear to dust jacket. Very Good. (Subject: Japan).
ISBN10: 069107495X, ISBN13: 9780691074955, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Hardcover Book is in NEW condition. 1.25 [Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2001]
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