Verlag: University of Hawaii Press, 1998
ISBN 10: 0824820908 ISBN 13: 9780824820909
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Verlag: University of Hawaii Press, 1998
ISBN 10: 0824820908 ISBN 13: 9780824820909
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0691057893 ISBN 13: 9780691057897
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Paperback. Zustand: USED_VERYGOOD. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: University of Hawaii Press, 1998
ISBN 10: 0824820908 ISBN 13: 9780824820909
Anbieter: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, USA
Zustand: Used - Very Good. 1998. Paperback. Very Good.
Verlag: University of Hawaii Press, 1998
ISBN 10: 0824820908 ISBN 13: 9780824820909
Anbieter: medimops, Berlin, Deutschland
Zustand: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.
Verlag: Univ of Hawaii Pr, 2004
ISBN 10: 0824828100 ISBN 13: 9780824828103
Anbieter: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, USA
Zustand: Used - Very Good. 2005. Hardcover. Very Good.
Verlag: Latitude 20, 2012
ISBN 10: 0824836790 ISBN 13: 9780824836795
Anbieter: Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag, Amsterdam, Niederlande
Zustand: USED_ASNEW. Honolulu, University of Hawai'i Press. 2013. Paperback. xiv,238pp. Ill. Index. Condition: as new, clean and unread copy. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780824836795. Keywords : , Hawaii.
Verlag: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 1998
ISBN 10: 0824820908 ISBN 13: 9780824820909
Anbieter: Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß, Berlin, Deutschland
Original softcover. Zustand: Gut. XII, 303 p., ill. Somewhat stained bottom edge, minimally rubbed, occasional pencil markings in text, otherwise very good and clean. / Etwas angeschmutzter Fußschnitt, vereinzelt Bleistiftanstreichungen im Text, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - Praying for practical benefits (genze riyaku) is a common religious acitivity in Japan. Despite its widespread nature and the vast numbers of people who pray and purchase amulets and talismans for everything from traffic safely and education success to business prosperity and protection from disease, the practice has been virtually ignored in academic studies or relegated to the margins as a product of superstition or an aberration from the true dynamics of religion. Basing their work on a fusion of textual, ethnographic, historical, and contemporary studies, the authors of this volume demonstrate the fallacy of such views, showing that, far from being marginal, the concepts and practices surrounding genze riyaku lie at the very heart of the Japanese religious world. They thrive not only as popular religious expression but are supported by the doctrinal structures of most Buddhist sects, are ordained in religious scriptures, and are promoted by monastic training centers, shrines, and temples. Benefits are both sought and bought, and the authors discuss the economic and commercial aspects of how and why institutions promote practical benefits. They draw attention to the dynamism and flexibility in the religious marketplace, where new products are offered in response to changing needs. Intertwined in these economic activities and motivations are the truth claims that underpin and justify the promotion and practice of benefits. The authors also examine the business of guidebooks, which combine travel information with religious advice, including humorous and distinctive forms of prayer for the protection against embarrassing physical problems and sexual diseases. Written in a direct and engaging style, Practically Religious will appeal to a wide range of readers and will be especially valuable to those interested in religion, anthropology. Buddhist studies, sociology, and Japanese studies. - Ian Reader teaches at the Scottish Centre for Japanese Studies. University of Stirling, Scodand, and until recently was also a senior research fellow at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen. George J. Tanabe, Jr., is professor and chair in the Department of Religion, University of Hawai'i. ISBN 9780824820909 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 495.
Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0691057893 ISBN 13: 9780691057897
Anbieter: Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß, Berlin, Deutschland
Zustand: Gut. XVIII; 564 S.; 23 cm; kart. Gutes Ex.; Inhaltsverz. mit kl. Bleistift-Anstreichungen - Englisch. - 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, disappointment and hope, quiescence and war. It is an indispensable sourcebook for scholars, students, and general readers seeking engagement with the fertile "ordered disorder" of religious practice in Japan. (Verlagstext) / INHALT : . Japanese Puppetry: From Ritual Performance to Stage Entertainment -- - Jane Marie Law -- The Shinto Wedding Ceremony: A Modern Norito - Cherish Pratt -- SPIRITS -- Tama Belief and Practice in Ancient Japan - Gary L. Ebersole -- Japan's First Shingon Ceremony - David L. Gardiner -- Shingon Services for the Dead - Richard Karl Payne -- Genshin's Deathbed Nembutsu Ritual in Pure Land Buddhism - -- James C. Dobbins -- Women and Japanese Buddhism: Tales of Birth in the Pure Land - -- William E. Deal -- Epic and Religious Propaganda from the Ippen School of Pure Land -- Buddhism - Sybil Thornton -- Buddhism and Abortion: "The Way to Memorialize One's Mizuko" - -- William R. LaFleur -- RITUALS OF REALIZATION -- The Contemplation oj Suchness - Jacqueline I. Stone -- The Purification Formula of the Nakatomi - Mark Teeuwen and -- Hendrik van der Veere -- Dogen's Lancet oj Seated Meditation - Carl Bielefeldt -- Chido's Dreams of Buddhism - William M. Bodiford -- A Japanese Shugendo Apocryphal Text - Paul Swanson -- FAITH -- On Attaining the Settled Mind: The Condition of the Nembutsu -- Practitioner - Dennis Hirota -- Plain Words on the Pure Land Way - Dennis Hirota -- Shinran's Faith as Immediate Fulfillment in Pure Land Buddhism - -- James C. Dobbins -- Institutional Practices -- COURT AND EMPEROR -- The Confucian Monarchy of Nara Japan - Charles Holcombe -- The Founding of the Monastery Gangoji and a List of Its Treasures - -- Miwa Stevenson -- (u.v.a.) ISBN 0691057893 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 750.
Verlag: Witty Writings Mär 2024, 2024
ISBN 10: 1944521216 ISBN 13: 9781944521219
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - '. led by a memorable picaresque hero . An endlessly surprising page turner.' - Roger Jellinek, Executive Director, Hawai?i Book and Music Festival.
Verlag: Nichiren Buddhist International Center, 2021
ISBN 10: 1736955705 ISBN 13: 9781736955703
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New.