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Contemporary Buddhism Ser.: Guardians of the Buddha's Home : Domestic Religion in Contemporary Jōdo Shinshū by Jessica Starling (2019, Hardcover)
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In Guardians of the Buddhas Home, Jessica Starling draws on nearly three years of ethnographic research to provide a comprehensive view of Jodo Shinshu (True Pure Land) temple life with temple wives (known as bomori, or temple guardians) at its center. Throughout, she focuses on domestic religion, a mode of doing religion centering on more informal religious expression that has received scant attention in the scholarly literature. The Buddhist temple wifes movement back and forth between the main hall and the back stage of the kitchen and family residence highlights the way religious meaning cannot be confined to canonical texts or to the area of the temple prescribed for formal worship. Starling argues that attaining Buddhist faith (shinjin) is just as likely to occur in response to.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Hawaii Press
ISBN-100824866924
ISBN-139780824866921
eBay Product ID (ePID)10046545206
Product Key Features
Number of Pages200 Pages
Publication NameGuardians of the Buddha's Home : Domestic Religion in Contemporary JōDo Shinshū
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2019
SubjectBuddhism / Rituals & Practice, Buddhism / General (See Also Philosophy / Buddhist), Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Women's Studies, Sexuality & Gender Studies
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaReligion, Social Science
AuthorJessica Starling
SeriesContemporary Buddhism Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight11.1 oz.
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.2 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
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