subject:(japanese religion)

University of Alberta

1. Miyamoto, Tomoka. From Karuto or “Cult” to the Mainstream: The Reconstruction of Public Images by a Japanese Religious Group.

Degree: MA, Department of East Asian Studies, 2014, University of Alberta

URL: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/7s75dc94v

► Aum Shinrikyo, a religious sect generally seen as a karuto or “cult” in Japanese society, carried out sarin gas attacks in 1995. Today, a successor… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: cults; Japanese religion; Japanese culture

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Miyamoto, T. (2014). From Karuto or “Cult” to the Mainstream: The Reconstruction of Public Images by a Japanese Religious Group. (Masters Thesis). University of Alberta. Retrieved from https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/7s75dc94v

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Miyamoto, Tomoka. “From Karuto or “Cult” to the Mainstream: The Reconstruction of Public Images by a Japanese Religious Group.” 2014. Masters Thesis, University of Alberta. Accessed March 05, 2021. https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/7s75dc94v.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Miyamoto, Tomoka. “From Karuto or “Cult” to the Mainstream: The Reconstruction of Public Images by a Japanese Religious Group.” 2014. Web. 05 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Miyamoto T. From Karuto or “Cult” to the Mainstream: The Reconstruction of Public Images by a Japanese Religious Group. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Alberta; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/7s75dc94v.

Council of Science Editors:

Miyamoto T. From Karuto or “Cult” to the Mainstream: The Reconstruction of Public Images by a Japanese Religious Group. [Masters Thesis]. University of Alberta; 2014. Available from: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/7s75dc94v

Leiden University

2. Pols, Vincent. Sacred charms and fashionable accessories – The different functions of omamori in 21st century Japan.

Degree: 2019, Leiden University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/77281

► This thesis discusses what motivates people in Japan to buy sacred charms (omamori), through the lens of the Japanese ritual worldview. They are traditionally used… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: omamori; buddhism; cuteness; Japanese religion; amulets

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Pols, V. (2019). Sacred charms and fashionable accessories – The different functions of omamori in 21st century Japan. (Masters Thesis). Leiden University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1887/77281

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Pols, Vincent. “Sacred charms and fashionable accessories – The different functions of omamori in 21st century Japan.” 2019. Masters Thesis, Leiden University. Accessed March 05, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1887/77281.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Pols, Vincent. “Sacred charms and fashionable accessories – The different functions of omamori in 21st century Japan.” 2019. Web. 05 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Pols V. Sacred charms and fashionable accessories – The different functions of omamori in 21st century Japan. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Leiden University; 2019. [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/77281.

Council of Science Editors:

Pols V. Sacred charms and fashionable accessories – The different functions of omamori in 21st century Japan. [Masters Thesis]. Leiden University; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/77281

Columbia University

3. Kim, Su Jung. Transcending Locality, Creating Identity: Shinra Myojin, a Korean Deity in Japan.

Degree: 2014, Columbia University

URL: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8SF2TBT

► This dissertation is about Shinra Myojin, a god of Silla that was worshipped in medieval Japanese Buddhism. It analyzes the various networks with which the… (more)

▼ This dissertation is about Shinra Myojin, a god of Silla that was worshipped in medieval Japanese Buddhism. It analyzes the various networks with which the deity was involved, namely, networks of Silla immigrants, Silla shrines and temples, and a variety of gods. Through examining the worship of Shinra Myojin from several different angles, each chapter has different, and yet related arguments. In the first chapter, I argue that the emergence of Shinra Myojin's cult can be fully understood when viewed within the context of the "East Asian Mediterranean" trade network, in which Silla merchants, immigrants, and Buddhist monks played a prominent role. In the second chapter, while focusing on a pivotal moment of the Shinra Myojin cult – a process of sedentarisation in which he changed from a sea deity into a mountain deity, I argue that Shinra Myojin was the central deity of Onjoji, as well as the entire Jimon tradition. The third chapter explains how the Japanese imaginaire of Silla was evolved, encoded and had effects in medieval Japan, and how Shinra Myojin functioned as a god of pestilence. Another pivotal point of Shinra Myojin's career was his mythological transformation from 'a god of Silla' to 'a god who conquered Silla.' In the last chapter, I analyze the visual representation of Shinra Myojin within this larger religious context, and argue that Shinra Myojin is best understood when we consider the deity in this network of other Silla-related deities, represented as an old man. The examination of Shinra Myojin's cult from an interdisciplinary angle serves as a gateway for exploring other understudied associations between medieval Japanese religiosity and those religious ideas and practices that were either continental in origin or were at least perceived to be so by medieval Japanese. My findings from interdisciplinary research contribute to elucidating those connections existing across the boundaries of religion, history, mythology, literature, and visual culture, all of which describes broader dynamics of East Asian religion as a whole.

Subjects/Keywords: Cults; Japanese – Religion; Buddhism; Area studies; Asians

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Kim, S. J. (2014). Transcending Locality, Creating Identity: Shinra Myojin, a Korean Deity in Japan. (Doctoral Dissertation). Columbia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.7916/D8SF2TBT

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Kim, Su Jung. “Transcending Locality, Creating Identity: Shinra Myojin, a Korean Deity in Japan.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University. Accessed March 05, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8SF2TBT.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Kim, Su Jung. “Transcending Locality, Creating Identity: Shinra Myojin, a Korean Deity in Japan.” 2014. Web. 05 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Kim SJ. Transcending Locality, Creating Identity: Shinra Myojin, a Korean Deity in Japan. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8SF2TBT.

Council of Science Editors:

Kim SJ. Transcending Locality, Creating Identity: Shinra Myojin, a Korean Deity in Japan. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Columbia University; 2014. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8SF2TBT

Columbia University

4. Thompson, Luke Noel. Returning to the Founder: Śākyamuni Devotion in Early Medieval Japan and Japanese Buddhist Conceptions of History.

Degree: 2017, Columbia University

URL: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8QZ2GN8

► This dissertation examines Japanese conceptions of and devotional attitudes toward Śākyamuni (the historical Buddha) during the twelfth to fourteenth centuries. It focuses in particular on… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Buddhist literature, Japanese; Buddhism; Mahayana Buddhism; Japanese – Religion; Religion; History; Asians; Gautama Buddha

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Thompson, L. N. (2017). Returning to the Founder: Śākyamuni Devotion in Early Medieval Japan and Japanese Buddhist Conceptions of History. (Doctoral Dissertation). Columbia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.7916/D8QZ2GN8

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Thompson, Luke Noel. “Returning to the Founder: Śākyamuni Devotion in Early Medieval Japan and Japanese Buddhist Conceptions of History.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University. Accessed March 05, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8QZ2GN8.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Thompson, Luke Noel. “Returning to the Founder: Śākyamuni Devotion in Early Medieval Japan and Japanese Buddhist Conceptions of History.” 2017. Web. 05 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Thompson LN. Returning to the Founder: Śākyamuni Devotion in Early Medieval Japan and Japanese Buddhist Conceptions of History. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8QZ2GN8.

Council of Science Editors:

Thompson LN. Returning to the Founder: Śākyamuni Devotion in Early Medieval Japan and Japanese Buddhist Conceptions of History. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Columbia University; 2017. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8QZ2GN8

Princeton University

5. Hayashi, Kaoru. Narrating Vengeful Spirits and Genealogies in Premodern Japanese Literature .

Degree: PhD, 2018, Princeton University

URL: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp0108612r306

► This dissertation explores the invocation of the angry dead as both a social practice of genealogical imagination repeatedly thematized within Heian literary texts and as… (more)

▼ This dissertation explores the invocation of the angry dead as both a social practice of genealogical imagination repeatedly thematized within Heian literary texts and as itself a narrative act whose structure generated a particular voice integral to the development of classical Japanese fiction. I argue that in the eleventh to the fourteenth centuries, the process of becoming a powerful vengeful spirit, or even suffering as a victim of such a spirit, provided political, religious, and familial legitimacy in elite aristocratic culture. By closely investigating narrative techniques in a wide range of texts—from canonical literature, such as The Tale of Genji and Tale of Hōgen, to official historical chronicles, poems, and religious treatises—I trace a larger literary practice of invoking vengeful spirits as rhetorical devices in order to narrate the unspeakable, challenge stable meanings, and provide powerful genealogical links to the past, present, and future. Chapter One delves into one of the most famous of all premodern narratives, The Tale of Genji. By closely examining the multiple roles of female narrators, I argue that women not only mediate the voices of vengeful spirits but that the emergence of these vengeful spirits facilitates the development of the narrative itself. Chapter Two continues to explore The Tale of Genji by illustrating the significance of kinship in the process of becoming a vengeful spirit and how connections to such spirits reinforce genealogical legitimacy. Chapter Three evaluates the writings of Jien, an archbishop from premodern Japan’s most powerful aristocratic family, the Fujiwara, further examining the interdependency between genealogical legitimacy, Buddhist rhetoric, and vengeful spirits by focusing on Jien’s written prayers and his historical account, Gukanshō. Chapter Four reconsiders writings related to one of the most feared vengeful spirits in Japanese history, Retired Emperor Sutoku, who publicly declared his intention to become a vengeful spirit and cursed his own descendants. In total, this dissertation constitutes the first comprehensive literary and historical analysis of vengeful spirits in premodern Japan and argues for understanding these spirits through the intertwined relationship between narration and genealogies. Advisors/Committee Members: Steininger, Brian (advisor).

Subjects/Keywords: Japanese Literature; Japanese Religion; Narratives; Premodern Japan; Tale of Genji; Vengeful Spirits

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Hayashi, K. (2018). Narrating Vengeful Spirits and Genealogies in Premodern Japanese Literature . (Doctoral Dissertation). Princeton University. Retrieved from http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp0108612r306

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Hayashi, Kaoru. “Narrating Vengeful Spirits and Genealogies in Premodern Japanese Literature .” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Princeton University. Accessed March 05, 2021. http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp0108612r306.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Hayashi, Kaoru. “Narrating Vengeful Spirits and Genealogies in Premodern Japanese Literature .” 2018. Web. 05 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Hayashi K. Narrating Vengeful Spirits and Genealogies in Premodern Japanese Literature . [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Princeton University; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp0108612r306.

Council of Science Editors:

Hayashi K. Narrating Vengeful Spirits and Genealogies in Premodern Japanese Literature . [Doctoral Dissertation]. Princeton University; 2018. Available from: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp0108612r306

University of Manchester

6. Di Febo, Aura. The social welfare activities of Japanese New Religions. Rissho Koseikai as a case-study.

Degree: 2019, University of Manchester

URL: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:319812

► This thesis investigates the social welfare activities promoted by the lay Buddhist organisation Rissho Koseikai, directed at both members of the organisation and society at… (more)

▼ This thesis investigates the social welfare activities promoted by the lay Buddhist organisation Rissho Koseikai, directed at both members of the organisation and society at large, in order to offer new insight on the public presence of religion in contemporary Japan. In this thesis, I demonstrate how gaps in social care provision institute potential avenues of intervention where religious institutions and individuals can negotiate religion, i.e. mediate religious values and practices and redefine religions position and relevance within Japanese society. Recent scholarship on religiously inspired activism has often interpreted the growing relevance of religious organisations as non-state providers of social services among the signs of a global resurgence of religion in the public sphere. This thesis, however, argues that the social engagement of religious actors, or their contribution to addressing existing deficiencies in social welfare provision, does not necessarily translate into a reaffirmation of the public relevance of religion, or in a redefinition of the position of religious institutions within modern societies. Drawing from ethnographic data collected from local congregations of Rissho Koseikai and surrounding communities, I will illustrate how the movements efforts were frustrated by a number of environmental and structural constraints. These obstacles instituted a need for the negotiation, which took place both inside and outside the religious organisation. Although Koseikai representatives and practitioners eventually managed to address some of the perceived gaps and to an extent fulfilled the religious and organisational goals associated with them, overall their capacity to offer a social contribution was limited. More generally, attempts to negotiate religion through social welfare activities were substantially unsuccessful. In the case of Rissho Koseikai, rather than carving out a space for religion within contemporary Japanese society, efforts to fill the gaps often risked reinforcing its marginality. Data were collected during a 12-month stay in Japan, primarily through participant observation, in-depth interviews and archival research. Advisors/Committee Members: WATANABE, CHIKA C, Baffelli, Erica, Watanabe, Chika.

Subjects/Keywords: religion; social welfare; Japanese religions; new religions; faith-based welfare; public religion; social care

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Di Febo, A. (2019). The social welfare activities of Japanese New Religions. Rissho Koseikai as a case-study. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Manchester. Retrieved from http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:319812

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Di Febo, Aura. “The social welfare activities of Japanese New Religions. Rissho Koseikai as a case-study.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Manchester. Accessed March 05, 2021. http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:319812.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Di Febo, Aura. “The social welfare activities of Japanese New Religions. Rissho Koseikai as a case-study.” 2019. Web. 05 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Di Febo A. The social welfare activities of Japanese New Religions. Rissho Koseikai as a case-study. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Manchester; 2019. [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:319812.

Council of Science Editors:

Di Febo A. The social welfare activities of Japanese New Religions. Rissho Koseikai as a case-study. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Manchester; 2019. Available from: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:319812

University of Manchester

7. Di Febo, Aura. The social welfare activities of Japanese New Religions : Rissho Koseikai as a case-study.

Degree: PhD, 2019, University of Manchester

URL: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-social-welfare-activities-of-japanese-new-religions-rissho-koseikai-as-a-casestudy(ac5b0ee0-19d1-407e-addf-c81eb46da410).html ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.809352

► This thesis investigates the social welfare activities promoted by the lay Buddhist organisation Rissho Koseikai, directed at both members of the organisation and society at… (more)

▼ This thesis investigates the social welfare activities promoted by the lay Buddhist organisation Rissho Koseikai, directed at both members of the organisation and society at large, in order to offer new insight on the public presence of religion in contemporary Japan. In this thesis, I demonstrate how gaps in social care provision institute potential avenues of intervention where religious institutions and individuals can negotiate religion, i.e. mediate religious values and practices and redefine religions position and relevance within Japanese society. Recent scholarship on religiously inspired activism has often interpreted the growing relevance of religious organisations as non-state providers of social services among the signs of a global resurgence of religion in the public sphere. This thesis, however, argues that the social engagement of religious actors, or their contribution to addressing existing deficiencies in social welfare provision, does not necessarily translate into a reaffirmation of the public relevance of religion, or in a redefinition of the position of religious institutions within modern societies. Drawing from ethnographic data collected from local congregations of Rissho Koseikai and surrounding communities, I will illustrate how the movements efforts were frustrated by a number of environmental and structural constraints. These obstacles instituted a need for the negotiation, which took place both inside and outside the religious organisation. Although Koseikai representatives and practitioners eventually managed to address some of the perceived gaps and to an extent fulfilled the religious and organisational goals associated with them, overall their capacity to offer a social contribution was limited. More generally, attempts to negotiate religion through social welfare activities were substantially unsuccessful. In the case of Rissho Koseikai, rather than carving out a space for religion within contemporary Japanese society, efforts to fill the gaps often risked reinforcing its marginality. Data were collected during a 12-month stay in Japan, primarily through participant observation, in-depth interviews and archival research.

Subjects/Keywords: public religion; social care; faith-based welfare; religion; Japanese religions; social welfare; new religions

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Di Febo, A. (2019). The social welfare activities of Japanese New Religions : Rissho Koseikai as a case-study. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Manchester. Retrieved from https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-social-welfare-activities-of-japanese-new-religions-rissho-koseikai-as-a-casestudy(ac5b0ee0-19d1-407e-addf-c81eb46da410).html ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.809352

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Di Febo, Aura. “The social welfare activities of Japanese New Religions : Rissho Koseikai as a case-study.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Manchester. Accessed March 05, 2021. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-social-welfare-activities-of-japanese-new-religions-rissho-koseikai-as-a-casestudy(ac5b0ee0-19d1-407e-addf-c81eb46da410).html ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.809352.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Di Febo, Aura. “The social welfare activities of Japanese New Religions : Rissho Koseikai as a case-study.” 2019. Web. 05 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Di Febo A. The social welfare activities of Japanese New Religions : Rissho Koseikai as a case-study. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Manchester; 2019. [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-social-welfare-activities-of-japanese-new-religions-rissho-koseikai-as-a-casestudy(ac5b0ee0-19d1-407e-addf-c81eb46da410).html ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.809352.

Council of Science Editors:

Di Febo A. The social welfare activities of Japanese New Religions : Rissho Koseikai as a case-study. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Manchester; 2019. Available from: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-social-welfare-activities-of-japanese-new-religions-rissho-koseikai-as-a-casestudy(ac5b0ee0-19d1-407e-addf-c81eb46da410).html ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.809352

Columbia University

8. Andrei, Talia Johanna. Mapping Sacred Spaces: Representations of Pleasure and Worship in Sankei Mandara.

Degree: 2016, Columbia University

URL: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8VX0GPV

► This dissertation examines the historical and artistic circumstances behind the emergence in late medieval Japan of a short-lived genre of painting referred to as sankei… (more)

▼ This dissertation examines the historical and artistic circumstances behind the emergence in late medieval Japan of a short-lived genre of painting referred to as sankei mandara (pilgrimage mandalas). The paintings are large-scale topographical depictions of sacred sites and served as promotional material for temples and shrines in need of financial support to encourage pilgrimage, offering travelers worldly and spiritual benefits while inspiring them to donate liberally. Itinerant monks and nuns used the mandara in recitation performances (etoki) to lead audiences on virtual pilgrimages, decoding the pictorial clues and touting the benefits of the site shown. Addressing themselves to the newly risen commoner class following the collapse of the aristocratic order, sankei mandara depict commoners in the role of patron and pilgrim, the first instance of them being portrayed this way, alongside warriors and aristocrats as they make their way to the sites, enjoying the local delights, and worship on the sacred grounds. Together with the novel subject material, a new artistic language was created—schematic, colorful and bold. We begin by locating sankei mandara’s artistic roots and influences and then proceed to investigate the individual mandara devoted to three sacred sites: Mt. Fuji, Kiyomizudera and Ise Shrine (a sacred mountain, temple and shrine, respectively). For each of the sites, we read the histories (political, religious, economic, social) and diaries (of pilgrims, monks and warlords), noting upheavals, power dynamics, and institutional relationships, and how these circumstances and relationships changed over the course of the 16th and early 17th centuries. We then apply this textual history to a formal analysis of each of the mandara devoted to the site, studying how the history of the site and the layout of the shrines and temples and the route to them are expressed in the pictorial language of the mandara, and we try to imagine how these paintings were employed and enlivened in etoki performances. Furthermore, by closely studying similarities and differences in choice and emphasis we show that the mandara, above their call for pilgrimage and donations, also encode the historical conditions at the time they were painted, capturing for example the tensions between religious groups and classes or the changing fortunes of a particular institution over time. This investigation thus aims to show how reading the artistic language of sankei mandara enlarges our understanding of a particular moment in Japan’s social and religious history, making these images valuable primary sources that enhance and supplement research in a wide range of fields.

Subjects/Keywords: Mandala in art; Art, Japanese; Mandala (Buddhism); Art; Religion; History

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Andrei, T. J. (2016). Mapping Sacred Spaces: Representations of Pleasure and Worship in Sankei Mandara. (Doctoral Dissertation). Columbia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.7916/D8VX0GPV

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Andrei, Talia Johanna. “Mapping Sacred Spaces: Representations of Pleasure and Worship in Sankei Mandara.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University. Accessed March 05, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8VX0GPV.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Andrei, Talia Johanna. “Mapping Sacred Spaces: Representations of Pleasure and Worship in Sankei Mandara.” 2016. Web. 05 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Andrei TJ. Mapping Sacred Spaces: Representations of Pleasure and Worship in Sankei Mandara. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8VX0GPV.

Council of Science Editors:

Andrei TJ. Mapping Sacred Spaces: Representations of Pleasure and Worship in Sankei Mandara. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Columbia University; 2016. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8VX0GPV

9. Tighe, Richard. In Dialogue With Shinto: Challenges to Interreligious Communication.

Degree: School of Religions,Theology & Ecumenics. Irish School of Ecumenics, 2018, Trinity College Dublin

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2262/82641

► A major challenge for the contemporary world is how to best approach inter-religious dialogue, especially between faiths that have very different perspectives. Whilst much work… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Shinto; Dialogue; Peace Studies; Japan; Interreligious Dialogue; Japanese; interfaith; Religion

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Tighe, R. (2018). In Dialogue With Shinto: Challenges to Interreligious Communication. (Thesis). Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2262/82641

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Tighe, Richard. “In Dialogue With Shinto: Challenges to Interreligious Communication.” 2018. Thesis, Trinity College Dublin. Accessed March 05, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2262/82641.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Tighe, Richard. “In Dialogue With Shinto: Challenges to Interreligious Communication.” 2018. Web. 05 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Tighe R. In Dialogue With Shinto: Challenges to Interreligious Communication. [Internet] [Thesis]. Trinity College Dublin; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2262/82641.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Tighe R. In Dialogue With Shinto: Challenges to Interreligious Communication. [Thesis]. Trinity College Dublin; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2262/82641

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Louisville

10. Sheehan, Kendra Nicole. The otaku phenomenon : pop culture, fandom, and religiosity in contemporary Japan.

Degree: PhD, 2017, University of Louisville

URL: 10.18297/etd/2850 ; https://ir.library.louisville.edu/etd/2850

► The focus of this dissertation centers on the otaku subculture and their subsequent incorporation of Japanese religious elements into their consumption of Japanese popular… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Japan; otaku; shinto; kanda shrine; washinomiya shrine; Japanese culture; Comparative Methodologies and Theories; Japanese Studies; Other Religion

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Sheehan, K. N. (2017). The otaku phenomenon : pop culture, fandom, and religiosity in contemporary Japan. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Louisville. Retrieved from 10.18297/etd/2850 ; https://ir.library.louisville.edu/etd/2850

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Sheehan, Kendra Nicole. “The otaku phenomenon : pop culture, fandom, and religiosity in contemporary Japan.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Louisville. Accessed March 05, 2021. 10.18297/etd/2850 ; https://ir.library.louisville.edu/etd/2850.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Sheehan, Kendra Nicole. “The otaku phenomenon : pop culture, fandom, and religiosity in contemporary Japan.” 2017. Web. 05 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Sheehan KN. The otaku phenomenon : pop culture, fandom, and religiosity in contemporary Japan. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisville; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: 10.18297/etd/2850 ; https://ir.library.louisville.edu/etd/2850.

Council of Science Editors:

Sheehan KN. The otaku phenomenon : pop culture, fandom, and religiosity in contemporary Japan. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Louisville; 2017. Available from: 10.18297/etd/2850 ; https://ir.library.louisville.edu/etd/2850

Duke University

11. Schroeder, Jeff. After Kiyozawa: A Study of Shin Buddhist Modernization, 1890-1956 .

Degree: 2015, Duke University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10161/10460

► This dissertation examines the modern transformation of orthodoxy within the Otani denomination of Japanese Shin Buddhism. This history was set in motion by scholar-priest… (more)

▼ This dissertation examines the modern transformation of orthodoxy within the Otani denomination of Japanese Shin Buddhism. This history was set in motion by scholar-priest Kiyozawa Manshi (1863-1903), whose calls for free inquiry, introspection, and attainment of awakening in the present life represented major challenges to the prevailing orthodoxy. Judging him a principal player in forging a distinctively modern Buddhism, many scholars have examined Kiyozawa's life and writings. However, it is critical to recognize that during his life Kiyozawa remained a marginal figure within his sect, his various reform initiatives ending in failure. It was not until 1956 that Otani leaders officially endorsed and disseminated Kiyozawa's views. Taking my cue from Talal Asad's critique of Clifford Geertz's definition of religion, I move beyond interpretation of the "meaning" of Kiyozawa's life and writings to the historical study of how they came to be invested with authority, impacting the lives of millions of sect members and influencing the perception of him among scholars. I approach this history on three levels. On an individual level, I examine the lives and writings of Kiyozawa, his followers, and his critics, as revealed in their books, journal articles, newspaper articles, diaries, and letters. On an institutional level, I examine the transformation of the Otani organization's educational, administrative, and judicial systems, as documented in institutional histories, denominational by-laws, official statements, and administrators' writings. Finally, on a national level, I examine the effect of major political events and social trends on Kiyozawa's followers and the Otani organization. This study reveals that one critical factor in the transformation of Otani orthodoxy was the strategic use of a discourse of "empiricism" by Kiyozawa's followers. As the Otani organization's modern university gradually came to supercede its traditional seminary, Kiyozawa's followers positioned themselves as authoritative modern scholars. At the same time, this study shows that the transformation of Otani orthodoxy was contingent upon broader historical developments far outside the control of Kiyozawa's followers or Otani leaders. Specifically, the state's persecution of Communists, war mobilization policies, and the post-war context of democracy building all shaped the views and fortunes of Kiyozawa's followers. I argue that by better acknowledging and examining the contingent nature of religious history, scholars can approach a more realistic view of how religions are formed and reformed. Specifically in regard to modern Buddhist studies, I also argue that more attention should be paid to how sectarian institutions continue to grow and evolve, shaping all aspects of Buddhist thought and practice. Advisors/Committee Members: Jaffe, Richard (advisor).

Subjects/Keywords: Religion; History; Japanese Buddhism; Kiyozawa Manshi; orthodoxy; Pure Land; religious experience; Shin Buddhism

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Schroeder, J. (2015). After Kiyozawa: A Study of Shin Buddhist Modernization, 1890-1956 . (Thesis). Duke University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10161/10460

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Schroeder, Jeff. “After Kiyozawa: A Study of Shin Buddhist Modernization, 1890-1956 .” 2015. Thesis, Duke University. Accessed March 05, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/10460.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Schroeder, Jeff. “After Kiyozawa: A Study of Shin Buddhist Modernization, 1890-1956 .” 2015. Web. 05 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Schroeder J. After Kiyozawa: A Study of Shin Buddhist Modernization, 1890-1956 . [Internet] [Thesis]. Duke University; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10161/10460.

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Schroeder J. After Kiyozawa: A Study of Shin Buddhist Modernization, 1890-1956 . [Thesis]. Duke University; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10161/10460

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Temple University

12. Terasawa, Kunihiko. Modern Japanese Buddhism in the Context of Interreligious Dialogue, Nationalism and World War II.

Degree: PhD, 2012, Temple University

URL: http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,200626

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This dissertation studies the critical and historical examination of modern Japanese Buddhism in terms of its collaboration with and resistance to ultranationalism and militarism before and during World War II. It also examines how Buddhism came to Japan and transformed itself according to the historical, social and political contexts throughout history. Also it shows how and why Japanese Buddhism has transformed the Gautama Buddha's teachings, the Dhamma and the notion of community, Sangha to its own in terms in relationship to the state. In order to examine the Japan's modern-nation-state's invention of installing a national consciousness and identity in the people through the means of State Shinto and the emperor, kokutai ideology after the Meiji Restoration in 1868, I apply the methodologies of social critical theories of James Scott, Benedict Anderson, Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu. After the Tokugawa shogunate's long patronage of Buddhism (1602-1868), the dissertation examines how modern Japanese Buddhism was challenged by the Meiji state, and transformed itself to meet the need of the modern-nation-state centered on State Shinto and kokutai ideology. Moreover, it exposes how Japanese Buddhism struggled to meet the modernity itself such as individuality and socialization. Furthermore, in the 1930-40's, in the context of rise of ultranationalism and militarism in the name of "overcoming modernity," this dissertation explores how the Japanese Buddhist sects such as True Pure Land, Nichiren, Zen, and the Kyoto School collaborated with and resisted to them. Despite the main Japanese Buddhism's active participation in the war, there were few Japanese Buddhists' resistances. The dissertation examines why and how they could not effectively resist but failed. Moreover, the dissertation shows that there were several opportunities that Japanese Buddhism might have stopped the state's control of religions – the rise of ultranationalism and war ideology in the cases of Uchimura Kanzô's lese majeste in the 1890's, the state's failures of ratification on the Religious Organization Law twice in the 1920's, and Seno'o Girô's anti-fascist movements in the 1930's – the Buddhists had had critical minds and organizational wills alongside with the interreligious cooperation with Christianity and new religions. Thus, this dissertation critically examines Japanese Buddhism in three terms; the social critical ethics, the interreligious dialogue, and the trans-national dialogue. It shows why and how Japanese Buddhism lost the Buddha's critical mind, social ethics, the democratic origin of Sangha, as well as the trans-national dialogue with Korean, Chinese and South Asian Buddhists and eventually justified the Japanese imperial aggression against Asia. I hope that my dissertation will help the Japanese Buddhists undertake a self-critical examination of their involvement in World War II, and would set up a good example of self-criticism of religion and nationalism. It could certainly help the current Islamic people's…

Advisors/Committee Members: Swidler, Leonard J., Raines, John C., Uno, Kathleen S., Rey, Terry, Victoria, Daizen.

Subjects/Keywords: Religion; Asian history; Ethics; Interreligious Dialogue; Modern Japanese Buddhism; Religion and Nationalism; Religious Social Ethics; War and Peace; World War II

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Terasawa, K. (2012). Modern Japanese Buddhism in the Context of Interreligious Dialogue, Nationalism and World War II. (Doctoral Dissertation). Temple University. Retrieved from http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,200626

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Terasawa, Kunihiko. “Modern Japanese Buddhism in the Context of Interreligious Dialogue, Nationalism and World War II.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Temple University. Accessed March 05, 2021. http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,200626.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Terasawa, Kunihiko. “Modern Japanese Buddhism in the Context of Interreligious Dialogue, Nationalism and World War II.” 2012. Web. 05 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Terasawa K. Modern Japanese Buddhism in the Context of Interreligious Dialogue, Nationalism and World War II. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Temple University; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,200626.

Council of Science Editors:

Terasawa K. Modern Japanese Buddhism in the Context of Interreligious Dialogue, Nationalism and World War II. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Temple University; 2012. Available from: http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,200626

SUNY College at Brockport

13. Symonds, Shannon Reed. A History of Japanese Religion: From Ancient Times to Present.

Degree: MA, History, 2005, SUNY College at Brockport

URL: https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/hst_theses/19

► The purpose of this thesis is to discuss the progression of Japanese religion from its earliest inception to the present day. In the United… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Japanese religion; history; Soka Gakkai; attitudes about religion; History; History of Religion

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Symonds, S. R. (2005). A History of Japanese Religion: From Ancient Times to Present. (Thesis). SUNY College at Brockport. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/hst_theses/19

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Symonds, Shannon Reed. “A History of Japanese Religion: From Ancient Times to Present.” 2005. Thesis, SUNY College at Brockport. Accessed March 05, 2021. https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/hst_theses/19.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Symonds, Shannon Reed. “A History of Japanese Religion: From Ancient Times to Present.” 2005. Web. 05 Mar 2021.

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Symonds SR. A History of Japanese Religion: From Ancient Times to Present. [Internet] [Thesis]. SUNY College at Brockport; 2005. [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/hst_theses/19.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Symonds SR. A History of Japanese Religion: From Ancient Times to Present. [Thesis]. SUNY College at Brockport; 2005. Available from: https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/hst_theses/19

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McMaster University

14. Bond, Kevin A. Forcing the Immovable One to the Ground: Revisioning a Major Deity in Early Modern Japan.

Degree: PhD, 2009, McMaster University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/17262

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This dissertation examines early modern (seventeenth-mid-nineteenth century) Japanese religion through a study of a cult devoted to the popular deity Fudō Myōō ("The Immovable King… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Japanese religion; Fudō Myōō; Japanese deity; Naritasan Temple; miracle tale literature

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Bond, K. A. (2009). Forcing the Immovable One to the Ground: Revisioning a Major Deity in Early Modern Japan. (Doctoral Dissertation). McMaster University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11375/17262

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Bond, Kevin A. “Forcing the Immovable One to the Ground: Revisioning a Major Deity in Early Modern Japan.” 2009. Doctoral Dissertation, McMaster University. Accessed March 05, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11375/17262.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Bond, Kevin A. “Forcing the Immovable One to the Ground: Revisioning a Major Deity in Early Modern Japan.” 2009. Web. 05 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Bond KA. Forcing the Immovable One to the Ground: Revisioning a Major Deity in Early Modern Japan. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. McMaster University; 2009. [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/17262.

Council of Science Editors:

Bond KA. Forcing the Immovable One to the Ground: Revisioning a Major Deity in Early Modern Japan. [Doctoral Dissertation]. McMaster University; 2009. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/17262

Temple University

15. Cheung, Kin. Meditation and Neural Connections: Changing Sense(s) of Self in East Asian Buddhist and Neuroscientific Descriptions.

Degree: PhD, 2017, Temple University

URL: http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,425864

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Since its inception in the 1960s, the scientific research of Buddhist-based meditation practices have grown exponentially with hundreds of new studies every year in… (more)

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Since its inception in the 1960s, the scientific research of Buddhist-based meditation practices have grown exponentially with hundreds of new studies every year in the past decade. Some researchers are using Buddhist teachings, such as not-self, as an explanation for the causal mechanism of meditation’s effectiveness, for conditions such as stress, anxiety, and depression. However, there has been little response from Buddhist studies scholars to these proposed mechanisms in the growing discourse surrounding the engagement of ‘Buddhism’ and ‘Science.’ I argue that the mechanistic causal explanations of meditation offered by researchers provide an incomplete understanding of meditative practices. I focus on two articles, by David Vago and his co-authors, that have been cited over nine hundred and three hundred times. I make explicit internal criticisms of their work from their peers in neuroscience, and offer external criticisms of their understanding of the cognitive aspects of meditation by using an extended, enactive, embodied, embedded, and affective (4EA) model of cognition. I also use Chinese Huayan Buddhist mereology and causation to provide a corrective for a more holistic understanding. The constructive aspect of my project combines 4EA cognition with Huayan mereology and causation in order to propose new directions of research on how meditative practices may lead to a changing sense of self that does not privilege neurobiological mechanisms. Instead, I argue a fruitful understanding of change in ethical behavior is a changing sense of self using support from a consummate meditator in the Japanese Zen Buddhist context: Dōgen and his text Shoakumakusa. Contemporary research looking for mechanistic causation focuses on the physical body, specifically the brain, without considering how the mind is involved in meditative practices. The group of researchers I focus on reduce the senses of self to localized parts of the brain. In contrast, according to Mahayana Buddhist terminology, Huayan offers a nondualistic understanding of the self that does not privilege the brain. Rather, Huayan characterizes the self as a mind-body complex and meditation is understood to involve the whole of the person. My critique notes how the methodology used in these studies focuses too much on the localized, explicit, and foreground, but not enough on the whole, implicit, and background processes in meditative practices. Bringing in Huayan also offers a constructive aspect to this engagement of Buddhist studies and neuroscience as there are implications of its mereology for a more complete understanding of not just meditation, but also of neuroplasticity. To be clear, the corrective is only meant for the direction of research that focuses on neural-mechanistic explanations of meditation. Surely, there is value in scientific research on meditative practices. However, that emphasis on neural mechanisms gives a misleading impression of being able to fully explain meditative practices. I argue that a more fruitful direction of…

Advisors/Committee Members: Nagatomo, Shigenori;, Bingenheimer, Marcus, Blankinship, Khalid Yahya, Zhao, Shanyang;.

Subjects/Keywords: Religion; Ethics; Philosophy;

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Cheung, K. (2017). Meditation and Neural Connections: Changing Sense(s) of Self in East Asian Buddhist and Neuroscientific Descriptions. (Doctoral Dissertation). Temple University. Retrieved from http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,425864

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Cheung, Kin. “Meditation and Neural Connections: Changing Sense(s) of Self in East Asian Buddhist and Neuroscientific Descriptions.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Temple University. Accessed March 05, 2021. http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,425864.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Cheung, Kin. “Meditation and Neural Connections: Changing Sense(s) of Self in East Asian Buddhist and Neuroscientific Descriptions.” 2017. Web. 05 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Cheung K. Meditation and Neural Connections: Changing Sense(s) of Self in East Asian Buddhist and Neuroscientific Descriptions. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Temple University; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,425864.

Council of Science Editors:

Cheung K. Meditation and Neural Connections: Changing Sense(s) of Self in East Asian Buddhist and Neuroscientific Descriptions. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Temple University; 2017. Available from: http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,425864

16. NG SUAN KHEE, JUDY. Shinto and Christian festivals: An analysis of the Japanese religious policy in wartime Singapore.

Degree: 2005, National University of Singapore

URL: http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/14496

Subjects/Keywords: Japanese Occupation; Shinto; Christian; Festivals; Religion; Wartime Singapore.

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NG SUAN KHEE, J. (2005). Shinto and Christian festivals: An analysis of the Japanese religious policy in wartime Singapore. (Thesis). National University of Singapore. Retrieved from http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/14496

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

NG SUAN KHEE, JUDY. “Shinto and Christian festivals: An analysis of the Japanese religious policy in wartime Singapore.” 2005. Thesis, National University of Singapore. Accessed March 05, 2021. http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/14496.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

NG SUAN KHEE, JUDY. “Shinto and Christian festivals: An analysis of the Japanese religious policy in wartime Singapore.” 2005. Web. 05 Mar 2021.

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NG SUAN KHEE J. Shinto and Christian festivals: An analysis of the Japanese religious policy in wartime Singapore. [Internet] [Thesis]. National University of Singapore; 2005. [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/14496.

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NG SUAN KHEE J. Shinto and Christian festivals: An analysis of the Japanese religious policy in wartime Singapore. [Thesis]. National University of Singapore; 2005. Available from: http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/14496

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17. Megumi, Maeri. Religion, nation, art : Christianity and modern Japanese literature.

Degree: PhD, Asian Cultures and Languages, 2014, University of Texas – Austin

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/24729

► My dissertation aims to uncover the complex relationship among religion, literature, and national identity by considering the case of Christianity in modern Japan. Although Christianity… (more)

▼ My dissertation aims to uncover the complex relationship among religion, literature, and national identity by considering the case of Christianity in modern Japan. Although Christianity was never successful in propagating its religious messages to the masses in the history of Japan, the re-introduction of Christianity in the late nineteenth century left a surprisingly powerful impression because, for many Japanese writers, it presented the “Western spirituality” against which they defined their religious, national and even artistic identities. By examining the works of two non-Christian authors, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke (1892-1927) and Yokomitsu Ri’ichi (1898-1947), and one Christian author Endō Shūsaku (1923-1996), I show how the encounter with Christianity was often crucial to sculpting perceptions of Japanese identity, religion, as well as art in the twentieth century. For the cosmopolitan Taishō author Akutagawa, Christianity was one of the motifs that stimulated his artistic production. Juxtaposing Christianity’s “power that destroys,” he celebrated Japanese religion’s “power that re-creates,” likening it to the process of artistic creation. A devotee to art throughout his life, Akutagawa maintained his unfaltering belief that the ultimate creator is art, and not God: he even re-created Christ into an artist in his final essay. Yokomitsu’s last novel, A Traveler’s Sadness demonstrates how Christianity acts as the catalyst for the establishment of Japanese national identity. Written mostly under Imperial Japan, the novel showcases the fear for the loss of Japanese identity in the face of overwhelming Western influence, as well as the urge to establish one, utilizing Ancient Shinto as the source. Ironically, however, it is discovered only when pitted against Christianity, the foreign religion. Endō began his career as an author because he wanted to reconcile his conflicting Christian and Japanese identities. Even though he initially scrutinized his native country of Japan and its religion with his internalized, critical Catholic gaze, his artistic endeavor gradually transformed Endō into what I call a “catholic” Catholic: he came to embrace Japanese religions and heritage without denouncing his Catholic faith. Even though these three authors had different motivations and issues to tackle, their negotiations illuminate how complex and interconnected are the relationships among their religious, national and artistic identities. Advisors/Committee Members: Fischer, Kirsten, 1963- (advisor).

Subjects/Keywords: Japanese literature; Religion; Christianity; National identity

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Megumi, M. (2014). Religion, nation, art : Christianity and modern Japanese literature. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Texas – Austin. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2152/24729

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Megumi, Maeri. “Religion, nation, art : Christianity and modern Japanese literature.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Texas – Austin. Accessed March 05, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/24729.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Megumi, Maeri. “Religion, nation, art : Christianity and modern Japanese literature.” 2014. Web. 05 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Megumi M. Religion, nation, art : Christianity and modern Japanese literature. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Texas – Austin; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/24729.

Council of Science Editors:

Megumi M. Religion, nation, art : Christianity and modern Japanese literature. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Texas – Austin; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/24729

Baylor University

18. Liu, Eric Y. Expanding the new paradigm: winners and losers among exclusive and nonexclusive religious firms in the Chinese and Japanese communities in the United States, 1850-1945.

Degree: MA, Sociology., 2006, Baylor University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2104/4004

► From the perspective of a refined religious economy theory, the present paper is the first to empirically study the interplay between exclusive and nonexclusive religious… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Chinese Americans – Religion.; Chinese Americans – Ethnic identity.; Japanese Americans – Religion.; Japanese Americans – Ethnic identity.

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Liu, E. Y. (2006). Expanding the new paradigm: winners and losers among exclusive and nonexclusive religious firms in the Chinese and Japanese communities in the United States, 1850-1945. (Masters Thesis). Baylor University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2104/4004

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Liu, Eric Y. “Expanding the new paradigm: winners and losers among exclusive and nonexclusive religious firms in the Chinese and Japanese communities in the United States, 1850-1945.” 2006. Masters Thesis, Baylor University. Accessed March 05, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/4004.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Liu, Eric Y. “Expanding the new paradigm: winners and losers among exclusive and nonexclusive religious firms in the Chinese and Japanese communities in the United States, 1850-1945.” 2006. Web. 05 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Liu EY. Expanding the new paradigm: winners and losers among exclusive and nonexclusive religious firms in the Chinese and Japanese communities in the United States, 1850-1945. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Baylor University; 2006. [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2104/4004.

Council of Science Editors:

Liu EY. Expanding the new paradigm: winners and losers among exclusive and nonexclusive religious firms in the Chinese and Japanese communities in the United States, 1850-1945. [Masters Thesis]. Baylor University; 2006. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2104/4004

University of Cambridge

19. Ushiyama, Rin. Memory struggles: Narrating and commemorating the Aum Affair in contemporary Japan, 1994-2015.

Degree: PhD, 2017, University of Cambridge

URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/267895

► This dissertation investigates how different stakeholders have competed over the interpretation and commemoration of the Aum Affair. The Aum Affair was a series of crimes… (more)

▼ This dissertation investigates how different stakeholders have competed over the interpretation and commemoration of the Aum Affair. The Aum Affair was a series of crimes committed by new religious movement Aum Shinrikyō between 1988 and 1995, which culminated in the gassing of the Tokyo subway system using sarin in March 1995. The Tokyo attack was the largest act of terrorism in post-war Japan. I combine qualitative methods of media analysis, interviews, and participant observation to analyse how different stakeholders have narrated and commemorated the Aum Affair. I propose ‘collective trauma’ as a revised theory of ‘cultural trauma’ to describe an event which is represented as harmful and indelible to collective memory and identity. In contrast to ‘cultural trauma’, which stresses the importance of symbolic representations of traumatic events, ‘collective trauma’ considers other ‘material’ processes – such as establishing facts, collective action, state responses, and litigation – which also contribute to trauma construction. My overarching argument is that various stakeholders – including state authorities, mass media, public intellectuals, victims, and former Aum believers – have constructed the Aum Affair as a collective trauma in multiple and conflicting ways. Many media representations situated Aum as an evil ‘cult’ which ‘brainwashed’ believers and intended to take over Japan through terror. State authorities also responded by treating Aum as a dangerous terrorist group. In some instances, these binary representations of Japan locked in a struggle against an evil force led to municipal governments violating the civil rights of Aum believers. Some individuals such as public intellectuals and former believers have challenged this divisive view by treating Aum as a ‘religion’, not a ‘cult’, and locating the root causes of Aum’s growth in Japanese society. Additionally, victims and former members have pursued divergent goals such as retributive justice, financial reparations, and social reconciliation through their public actions. A key conclusion of this dissertation is that whilst confronting horrific acts of violence may require social construction of collective trauma using cultural codes of good and evil, the entrenchment of these symbolic categories can result in lasting social tension and division.

Subjects/Keywords: collective memory; aum shinrikyo; contemporary japan; japanese culture; sociology of religion; japanese religion; cultural trauma; cultural sociology; sociology of intellectuals; commemoration; Tokyo Sarin Incident; cultural studies; trauma theory; victimhood; public intellectuals; memorials

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Ushiyama, R. (2017). Memory struggles: Narrating and commemorating the Aum Affair in contemporary Japan, 1994-2015. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Cambridge. Retrieved from https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/267895

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Ushiyama, Rin. “Memory struggles: Narrating and commemorating the Aum Affair in contemporary Japan, 1994-2015.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Cambridge. Accessed March 05, 2021. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/267895.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ushiyama, Rin. “Memory struggles: Narrating and commemorating the Aum Affair in contemporary Japan, 1994-2015.” 2017. Web. 05 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Ushiyama R. Memory struggles: Narrating and commemorating the Aum Affair in contemporary Japan, 1994-2015. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cambridge; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/267895.

Council of Science Editors:

Ushiyama R. Memory struggles: Narrating and commemorating the Aum Affair in contemporary Japan, 1994-2015. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Cambridge; 2017. Available from: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/267895

McMaster University

20. Thibaudeau, Kira. Theoretical Revelations and the Merging of Methods: Method and Theory in the Study of Medieval Japanese Buddhist Nuns and Material Culture.

Degree: MA, 2020, McMaster University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/25418

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This thesis develops a Theoretical framework to be applied to future research concerning medieval Japanese Buddhist nuns and their involvements with Buddhist material culture. My… (more)

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This thesis develops a Theoretical framework to be applied to future research concerning medieval Japanese Buddhist nuns and their involvements with Buddhist material culture. My efforts at theory production serve as a preliminary attempt at laying a comprehensive Theoretical foundation for a fresh area of inquiry, namely merging the respective studies of Japanese Buddhist nuns with Buddhist material culture. This marks a promising area of study as a corrective to the enduring focus placed upon men by Religious Studies (RS) scholars. Indeed, RS has historically been, and largely continues to be, a field dominated by men. As such, RS research has concentrated upon the male population, both lay and monastic, and has only recently started shifting toward the question of where women were and what they were doing. Additionally, the study of Buddhist material culture is itself a relatively new field. Consequently, there are currently very few English publications exploring women’s involvement with this important aspect of Buddhism. As a means of contextualizing the Theoretical framework ultimately proposed, I first examine the states of the Buddhist Studies subfields of Buddhist nuns and of Buddhist material culture. I subsequently explore the states of theory production within RS and Medieval Japanese Buddhist Studies (MJBS), contending that a distinctive mode of theory (macro ‘capital-T’ Theoretical frameworks and micro ‘lowercase-t’ theoretical models, respectively) is found within each discipline. While I propose only a RS style macro Theoretical framework, I suggest that an ideal foundation for the study of nuns through the lens of material culture will take the form of a Theoretical complex comprised of both a Theoretical framework and a MJBS style theoretical model. Ultimately, I wish to begin the process of laying the groundwork for future research focusing on women and gender within the context of Buddhism and material culture.

Thesis

Master of Arts (MA)

This thesis develops a Theoretical framework to be used in future research about medieval Japanese Buddhist nuns and their involvements with Buddhist material culture (paintings, statues, relics, and so on). This is a preliminary attempt at laying a Theoretical foundation for this fresh area of inquiry. In this endeavour, I am trying to respond to the enduring focus placed upon men by Religious Studies (RS) scholars, as the field has been and largely continues to be dominated by men. Consequently, there are very few English publications exploring Buddhist nuns and material culture, an important aspect of Buddhism. I examine the states of the studies of these topics, and explore two types of theory production distinct to RS and Medieval Japanese Buddhist Studies respectively. Ultimately, I wish to begin the process of laying the groundwork for future research on women and gender within the context of Buddhism and material culture.

Advisors/Committee Members: Rowe, Mark, Benn, James, Religious Studies.

Subjects/Keywords: Buddhism; Buddhist nuns; women in religion; theory; medieval Japan; Japanese Buddhism; Religious Studies; Buddhist Studies; Medieval Japanese Buddhist Studies; premodern Japanese Buddhism; premodern Japan; female monastics; Japanese nuns; patronage; merit; power-legitimacy-origins; legitimacy; field of merit; economy of merit; nuns; bikuni; Hokkeji; ama; convent; Buddhist material culture; method and theory

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Thibaudeau, K. (2020). Theoretical Revelations and the Merging of Methods: Method and Theory in the Study of Medieval Japanese Buddhist Nuns and Material Culture. (Masters Thesis). McMaster University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11375/25418

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Thibaudeau, Kira. “Theoretical Revelations and the Merging of Methods: Method and Theory in the Study of Medieval Japanese Buddhist Nuns and Material Culture.” 2020. Masters Thesis, McMaster University. Accessed March 05, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11375/25418.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Thibaudeau, Kira. “Theoretical Revelations and the Merging of Methods: Method and Theory in the Study of Medieval Japanese Buddhist Nuns and Material Culture.” 2020. Web. 05 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Thibaudeau K. Theoretical Revelations and the Merging of Methods: Method and Theory in the Study of Medieval Japanese Buddhist Nuns and Material Culture. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. McMaster University; 2020. [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/25418.

Council of Science Editors:

Thibaudeau K. Theoretical Revelations and the Merging of Methods: Method and Theory in the Study of Medieval Japanese Buddhist Nuns and Material Culture. [Masters Thesis]. McMaster University; 2020. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/25418

21. Feldman, Ross Christopher. Enchanting modernity : religion and the supernatural in contemporary Japanese popular culture.

Degree: MA, Asian Cultures and Languages, 2011, University of Texas – Austin

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-08-3903

► This thesis examines the ways in which popular culture reveals, and shapes, religious thinking in contemporary Japan. Through an investigation of popular culture including animated… (more)

▼ This thesis examines the ways in which popular culture reveals, and shapes, religious thinking in contemporary Japan. Through an investigation of popular culture including animated films (anime) and graphic novels (manga), and the cultural processes related to their production and consumption, it explores how and why popular culture in Japan is acting as a repository for ideas and images relating to religion, the supernatural, and the human and non-human agents who mediate them. Popular culture is important not only for the ways it discloses contemporaneous cultural trends, but because it acts in dialogic tension with them. In Japan, where society has grown increasingly secularized since at least the middle of the twentieth century, an overwhelming majority of citizens consider themselves non-religious. Surveys have consistently indicated that only a small percentage of respondents identify as actively Shintō, Buddhist, Christian or some other religious affiliation. At the same time, depictions of religious images and themes have grown exponentially in popular culture such that a recent internet search on “anime” plus “kami” (a Shintō deity) produced an astounding 20,100,000 hits. Clearly, religion continues to play a crucial role in the popular imagination. This juncture of popular culture and personal religious identity in contemporary Japan raises a number of questions discussed in the following chapters. What benefits do consumers derive from the treatment of religious themes in anime and manga? What do depictions of religion in popular media indicate about the construction of religious identity in Japan? Why the disparity between religious identification survey results and cultural consumption of religious themes and images? In short, what are the ways in which popular culture in Japan reveals ideas about religion and the supernatural, and in what ways does popular culture actively shape those conceptions? Advisors/Committee Members: Cather, Kirsten (advisor), Traphagan, John W. (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Japan; Religion; Popular culture; Anime; Manga; Otaku; Youkai; Kami; Spirituality; Supernatural; Magic; Magick; Japanese culture; Japanese religion; Japanese tradition

…MODERNITY: RELIGION AND THE SUPERNATURAL IN CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE POPULAR CULTURE APPROVED BY… …RELIGION AND THE SUPERNATURAL IN CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE POPULAR CULTURE by Ross Christopher… …lecherous, moneygrubbing Buddhist monk reflect the ways today’s Japanese think about religion? How… …influence of the ancient shamanic traditions in Japan. Writers on the history of Japanese religion… …religion to the minglings and separations of Shintō and Japanese Buddhism. To learn in greater…

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Feldman, R. C. (2011). Enchanting modernity : religion and the supernatural in contemporary Japanese popular culture. (Masters Thesis). University of Texas – Austin. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-08-3903

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Feldman, Ross Christopher. “Enchanting modernity : religion and the supernatural in contemporary Japanese popular culture.” 2011. Masters Thesis, University of Texas – Austin. Accessed March 05, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-08-3903.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Feldman, Ross Christopher. “Enchanting modernity : religion and the supernatural in contemporary Japanese popular culture.” 2011. Web. 05 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Feldman RC. Enchanting modernity : religion and the supernatural in contemporary Japanese popular culture. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Texas – Austin; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-08-3903.

Council of Science Editors:

Feldman RC. Enchanting modernity : religion and the supernatural in contemporary Japanese popular culture. [Masters Thesis]. University of Texas – Austin; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-08-3903

University of Otago

22. Giambra, Danilo. Mediated Representations: Japanese New Religions and Social Media .

Degree: University of Otago

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/6456

► Social Media significantly affect the way religion is presented and represented online, and allow a variety of religious actors to create a new type of… (more)

▼ Social Media significantly affect the way religion is presented and represented online, and allow a variety of religious actors to create a new type of charismatic authority for themselves, similar to that of celebrities. Drawing on examples derived from the use of the Internet by two established Japanese New Religions, Tenrikyō and Seichō no Ie, I argue that even where religious movements are resistant to using this medium at the organization level, new interactive digital spaces are changing the way religion is communicated online. This is because the agency of individuals and groups linked to the movement in these environments often overlaps with that of the organization itself, as a result of how meaning-making and public representation work on these platforms. For religious organizations which actively promote their use, Social Media provide ways to reinforce the authority of their current leadership despite the potential for harsh and undermining criticism opened up by these new spaces. That is, Social Media make available new tools and features that allow religious leaders to construct celebrity-like personae on these platforms, where the divide between their social roles of private persons and religious leaders is made thinner by the strategies of presentation, the effect of mediation, and the interactive nature of the Presentational Media. Communication is a fundamental element of religion. There would be no religion at all, if religious actors were not able to communicate their ideas and their beliefs, if they were not empowered to share their experiences and their interpretations of the world we live in. Communication is not just an effective tool for teaching doctrines and gaining new adherents; more often, it is evident that communication plays an active religious function, which can be justified from within the theology of the religious movement. It is therefore important to understand how Social Media are changing the way religious actors communicate through the Internet. Communicating religion through potentially interactive and collaborative channels does influence how religion is presented, represented, and transformed online, often despite the official policies of the religious movements involved. Unlike so-called traditional media, social spaces built in the Web 2.0 and beyond present characteristics of their own, which have altered how users get access to religious information, materials, and experiences, as well as what they can do with them. Because of their immediacy, Social Media have proven to be flexible digital environments, where religious information can be shared right here and right now. Moreover, the information is potentially subjected to the immediate and active attention of other users, who, in turn, are able to comment on it and re-share it in other platforms as well. That is, these environments also provide a space where religion can be enacted, and not just discussed. Japanese New Religions (shinshūkyō ) have been noticeably affected by this change. Whether these… Advisors/Committee Members: Sweetman, Will (advisor).

Subjects/Keywords: Social Media; Japanese New Religions; Religion; Tenrikyō; Seichō no Ie; Media; Japanese Studies; New Media; NRM

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Giambra, D. (n.d.). Mediated Representations: Japanese New Religions and Social Media . (Masters Thesis). University of Otago. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/6456

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Giambra, Danilo. “Mediated Representations: Japanese New Religions and Social Media .” Masters Thesis, University of Otago. Accessed March 05, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10523/6456.

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Giambra, Danilo. “Mediated Representations: Japanese New Religions and Social Media .” Web. 05 Mar 2021.

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Giambra D. Mediated Representations: Japanese New Religions and Social Media . [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Otago; [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/6456.

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Giambra D. Mediated Representations: Japanese New Religions and Social Media . [Masters Thesis]. University of Otago; Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/6456

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23. Chudnow, Matthew Thomas. Soteriology in the Female-Spirit Noh Plays of Konparu Zenchiku.

Degree: East Asian Languages and Literatures, 2017, University of California – Irvine

URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7bk827db

► Salvation is a central concept in multiple religious doctrines. In East Asia, Mahāyāna Buddhism's universal soteriology doctrine influences all facets of the religion. Despite this,… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Asian literature; Religion; Performing arts; Buddhism; Gender; Japanese Studies; Konparu Zenchiku; Medieval Japanese literature; Noh theater

…s universal soteriology doctrine influences all facets of the religion. Despite this, the… …universal religion guided by precepts focused on the salvation of all sentient beings, Mahāyāna… …gendered ethical conflict at the core of Japanese Buddhism. Within Noh, the conflict is presented… …several religious ethical questions and concerns regarding gender within Japanese Buddhism and… …jōbutsu (女人成仏) in Japanese, has been a subject of controversy in the history of…

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Chudnow, M. T. (2017). Soteriology in the Female-Spirit Noh Plays of Konparu Zenchiku. (Thesis). University of California – Irvine. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7bk827db

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Chudnow, Matthew Thomas. “Soteriology in the Female-Spirit Noh Plays of Konparu Zenchiku.” 2017. Thesis, University of California – Irvine. Accessed March 05, 2021. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7bk827db.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Chudnow, Matthew Thomas. “Soteriology in the Female-Spirit Noh Plays of Konparu Zenchiku.” 2017. Web. 05 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Chudnow MT. Soteriology in the Female-Spirit Noh Plays of Konparu Zenchiku. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – Irvine; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7bk827db.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Chudnow MT. Soteriology in the Female-Spirit Noh Plays of Konparu Zenchiku. [Thesis]. University of California – Irvine; 2017. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7bk827db

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McMaster University

24. Loop, Alexandra M. Literary Lesbian Liberation: Two Case Studies Interrogating How Queerness Has Manifested In Japanese Value Construction Through History.

Degree: MA, 2020, McMaster University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/25980

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The history of Japanese women who love women is often either ignored by or inaccessible to English speakers. To address this lacuna, I will lay… (more)

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The history of Japanese women who love women is often either ignored by or inaccessible to English speakers. To address this lacuna, I will lay out two case studies of women whose Queerness is potentially useful as models of Queer Japanese womanhood. I examine the narratives surrounding two women, Murasaki Shikibu (c. 973 or 978 – c. 1014 or 1031), the author the Tale of Genji, and Otake Kōkichi (1893-1966), an author, artist, and first wave feminist activist, in order to see how narratives surrounding their Queerness, known or posited, affect or are affected by cultural and religious narratives of identity and sexual values. The only major reading of Murasaki Shikibu as a woman who loved women is that of literary scholar and lesbian feminist Komashaku Kimi in Murasaki Shikibu’s Message (Murasaki Shikibu no Messeji), written in 1991. Her argument is that the interest in women’s bodies Murasaki shows in her diary and Poetic Memoirs was a kind of same-sex desire and that that desire was integral to her message in the Tale of Genji. This argument has never been given significant scholarly attention. As such, I examine this argument and present it in English. Otake Kōkichi, born Otake Kazue, is one of a handful of Queer women from the early 20th century who are regularly discussed in academic literature on Japanese feminist history, but most narratives surrounding her tend to center on a same-sex relationship she had in her youth and ignore the radical nature of her life after marriage. I will present aspects of her life that worked with and resisted various religions and systems of value creation that were competing for influence in twentieth-century Japan. The narratives surrounding Otake and Murasaki as Queer people center the radical nature of their work and lives. Both are discussed as having a kind of embodied politics that resists dominant images of womanhood and sexuality in favour of more liberatory constructions of value and identity.

Thesis

Master of Arts (MA)

Advisors/Committee Members: Rowe, Mark, Religious Studies.

Subjects/Keywords: Japanese Religion; Women's History; LGBTQ+ History; Japanese Queer History; Murasaki Shikibu; Otake Kokichi; ryosai kenbo; Komashaku Kimi; Queer Reading; Hiratsuka Raicho; The Bluestocking Society; Seito; Queer Recovery History; Bluestocking; Tomimoto Kazue; Tomimoto Kenkichi; Lesbianism; Japan; WLW

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Loop, A. M. (2020). Literary Lesbian Liberation: Two Case Studies Interrogating How Queerness Has Manifested In Japanese Value Construction Through History. (Masters Thesis). McMaster University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11375/25980

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Loop, Alexandra M. “Literary Lesbian Liberation: Two Case Studies Interrogating How Queerness Has Manifested In Japanese Value Construction Through History.” 2020. Masters Thesis, McMaster University. Accessed March 05, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11375/25980.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Loop, Alexandra M. “Literary Lesbian Liberation: Two Case Studies Interrogating How Queerness Has Manifested In Japanese Value Construction Through History.” 2020. Web. 05 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Loop AM. Literary Lesbian Liberation: Two Case Studies Interrogating How Queerness Has Manifested In Japanese Value Construction Through History. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. McMaster University; 2020. [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/25980.

Council of Science Editors:

Loop AM. Literary Lesbian Liberation: Two Case Studies Interrogating How Queerness Has Manifested In Japanese Value Construction Through History. [Masters Thesis]. McMaster University; 2020. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/25980

Columbia University

25. Rogers, Joshua. Enchanted Texts: Japanese Literature Between Religion and Science, 1890-1950.

Degree: 2020, Columbia University

URL: https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-jarv-wk23

► This dissertation explores how emerging understandings of science and religion impacted the formation of the modern field of literature in Japan. I argue that many… (more)

▼ This dissertation explores how emerging understandings of science and religion impacted the formation of the modern field of literature in Japan. I argue that many modern Japanese writers “enchanted” literature, giving it a metaphysical value that they thought might stand firm in the face of modernity’s “disenchantment of the world,” to use the famous phrase of Max Weber. To do so, writers leveraged new anti-materialistic, pantheistic, and mystical ontologies that emerged around the globe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in philosophy, theology, and new fields of knowledge like religious studies. These worldviews were appealing alternatives to “religion,” which many Japanese intellectuals understood mainly as orthodox forms of Christianity and Buddhism, and which had been widely rejected by the early twentieth century under the influence of new scientific and historical hermeneutics. At the same time though, influential voices in the emerging critical discourse of Japanese literature were skeptical of purely materialistic accounts of reality and especially of art, turning instead to new notions of the spirit, the ideal, and the transcendental. I argue that the foundations of literary value and of the social position of the author in modern Japan are rooted in these new ideas about what might be experienced and represented outside the bounds of both scientific materialism and traditional religious dogma. The texts I examine consist of literary and aesthetic treatises, debates on philosophical and theological issues, and biographical and fictional works, all of which were pivotal to the theorization of Japanese literature and the artist, ranging from early efforts in the 1890s and extending through the tumultuous first half of the 20th century. The first chapter of my dissertation explores how canonical writers like Kitamura Tōkoku (1868–1894), Mori Ōgai (1862–1922), and Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916) wove emerging theories of religion and reality into their view of the capacity of poetry and fiction in the 1890s and 1900s. I show how their idea of the genius, or, drawing from Thomas Carlyle, of the “hero,” ascribed to the modern author the same capacity to perceive beyond the five senses as that identified in the prophets of the world religions. This understanding was based on a shared premise that religious texts were products not of divine revelation, but of a universal, non-empirical type of experience of the “inner heart,” the “ideal,” or the “World-soul,” defined as the essence of the world’s religions yet untethered to any one religious faith and fully accessible to the modern genius. The second chapter argues that similar ideas penetrated notions of the modern novel and the author through the early 1910s. A new generation of young writers who launched their careers after Japan’s victory in the Russo-Japanese War, including Yanagi Muneyoshi (1889–1961) and Mushanokōji Saneatsu (1885–1976), imagined Japanese artists as equal members of a global community of artists by identifying…

Subjects/Keywords: Japanese literature; Religion and science; Metaphysics in literature; Literature, Modern; Kitamura, Tōkoku, 1868-1894; Mori, Ōgai, 1862-1922; Natsume, Sōseki, 1867-1916

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Rogers, J. (2020). Enchanted Texts: Japanese Literature Between Religion and Science, 1890-1950. (Doctoral Dissertation). Columbia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-jarv-wk23

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Rogers, Joshua. “Enchanted Texts: Japanese Literature Between Religion and Science, 1890-1950.” 2020. Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University. Accessed March 05, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-jarv-wk23.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Rogers, Joshua. “Enchanted Texts: Japanese Literature Between Religion and Science, 1890-1950.” 2020. Web. 05 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Rogers J. Enchanted Texts: Japanese Literature Between Religion and Science, 1890-1950. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University; 2020. [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-jarv-wk23.

Council of Science Editors:

Rogers J. Enchanted Texts: Japanese Literature Between Religion and Science, 1890-1950. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Columbia University; 2020. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-jarv-wk23

University College Cork

26. Twomey, Margaret P. Towards enhanced divine-human-earth relations: a Christian-Buddhist contribution.

Degree: 2014, University College Cork

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10468/1834

► The central claim of the dissertation is that lesser known and somewhat neglected, yet influential thinkers, within classical religious traditions have something worthwhile to contribute… (more)

▼ The central claim of the dissertation is that lesser known and somewhat neglected, yet influential thinkers, within classical religious traditions have something worthwhile to contribute to the kind of ethos we should adopt in the face of the world’s various environmental crises. Moreover an exploration of such perspectives is best done in dialogue, particularly between Eastern and Western thought. I examine this claim primarily through a dialogue between the Christian philosopher John Scottus Eriugena and the Japanese Buddhist philosopher Kūkai (Kōbō Daishi). This dialogue, framed by the triad of divine-human-earth relations, primarily emphasises the oneness of all reality, and it finds expression in Eriugena’s concept of natura or phusis and Kūkai’s central teaching that the phenomenal world is the cosmic Buddha Dainichi. By highlighting this focus, I contribute to the existing academic field of ecology and religion on the subject of holism. However, I go beyond the materialist focus that generally marks such ecological holism within that field, offering instead a more metaphysical approach. This is indicated through my use of the concept of ‘immanental transcendence’ to describe Eriugena’s and Kūkai’s dynamic, numinous and mysterious notion of reality, as well as my exploration of Eriugena’s concept of theophany and Kūkai’s notion of kaji. I further explore how both philosophers highlight the human role in the process of reaching enlightenment—understood as attaining union with the whole. In that regard, I note significant differences in their positions: in particular, I note that Kūkai’s emphasis on bodily practices contrasts with Eriugena’s more conceptual approach. Finally to bolster my claim, I examine some ecologically oriented understandings of contemporary phenomenological approaches found particularly in the work of Jean-Luc Marion and to a lesser extent Merleau-Ponty, arguing that these reflect notions of reality and of the human role similar to those of the medieval philosophers. Advisors/Committee Members: Parkes, Graham.

Subjects/Keywords: Eriugena; Kukai; Japanese Buddhist philosophy; Medieval Christian philosophy; Ecological theology; Gift and givenness; Jean-Luc Marion; Ecology and religion; Environmental philosophy; Ecophenomenology; Transcendence and immanence; Environment

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Twomey, M. P. (2014). Towards enhanced divine-human-earth relations: a Christian-Buddhist contribution. (Thesis). University College Cork. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10468/1834

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Twomey, Margaret P. “Towards enhanced divine-human-earth relations: a Christian-Buddhist contribution.” 2014. Thesis, University College Cork. Accessed March 05, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10468/1834.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Twomey, Margaret P. “Towards enhanced divine-human-earth relations: a Christian-Buddhist contribution.” 2014. Web. 05 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Twomey MP. Towards enhanced divine-human-earth relations: a Christian-Buddhist contribution. [Internet] [Thesis]. University College Cork; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10468/1834.

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Twomey MP. Towards enhanced divine-human-earth relations: a Christian-Buddhist contribution. [Thesis]. University College Cork; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10468/1834

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East Tennessee State University

27. Stucke, Walter Joseph. The Direct and Indirect Contributions of Western Missionaries to Korean Nationalism during the Late Choson and Early Japanese Annexation Periods 1884-1920.

Degree: MA, History, 2011, East Tennessee State University

URL: https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1338

► This thesis sets out to demonstrate the role of Western missionaries and Korean Christians, especially Protestants, on Korean nationalism. The first significant introduction of… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Christianity; Missionaries; March First Movement; Japanese Annexation; Late Choson Dynasty; Korea; Nationalism; Protestantism; Arts and Humanities; Asian History; History; History of Religion; Political History

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Stucke, W. J. (2011). The Direct and Indirect Contributions of Western Missionaries to Korean Nationalism during the Late Choson and Early Japanese Annexation Periods 1884-1920. (Thesis). East Tennessee State University. Retrieved from https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1338

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Stucke, Walter Joseph. “The Direct and Indirect Contributions of Western Missionaries to Korean Nationalism during the Late Choson and Early Japanese Annexation Periods 1884-1920.” 2011. Thesis, East Tennessee State University. Accessed March 05, 2021. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1338.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Stucke, Walter Joseph. “The Direct and Indirect Contributions of Western Missionaries to Korean Nationalism during the Late Choson and Early Japanese Annexation Periods 1884-1920.” 2011. Web. 05 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Stucke WJ. The Direct and Indirect Contributions of Western Missionaries to Korean Nationalism during the Late Choson and Early Japanese Annexation Periods 1884-1920. [Internet] [Thesis]. East Tennessee State University; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1338.

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Stucke WJ. The Direct and Indirect Contributions of Western Missionaries to Korean Nationalism during the Late Choson and Early Japanese Annexation Periods 1884-1920. [Thesis]. East Tennessee State University; 2011. Available from: https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1338

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Leiden University

28. Breugem, V.M.N. From prominence to obscurity : a study of the Darumashū : Japan's first Zen school.

Degree: 2012, Leiden University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/19051

► From Prominence to Obscurity focuses on the Darumashū (Bodhidharma school), a little known but important agent in the formative history of Zen in Japan.… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Heterodoxy; Medieval religion; Buddhism; Zen; Japanese history; Sh_b_genz_; Dōgen; Bodhidharma

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Breugem, V. M. N. (2012). From prominence to obscurity : a study of the Darumashū : Japan's first Zen school. (Doctoral Dissertation). Leiden University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1887/19051

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Breugem, V M N. “From prominence to obscurity : a study of the Darumashū : Japan's first Zen school.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Leiden University. Accessed March 05, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1887/19051.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Breugem, V M N. “From prominence to obscurity : a study of the Darumashū : Japan's first Zen school.” 2012. Web. 05 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Breugem VMN. From prominence to obscurity : a study of the Darumashū : Japan's first Zen school. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Leiden University; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/19051.

Council of Science Editors:

Breugem VMN. From prominence to obscurity : a study of the Darumashū : Japan's first Zen school. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Leiden University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/19051

University of Florida

29. Spaid Ishida, Sarah. The Making of an American Shinto Community.

Degree: MA, Religion, 2008, University of Florida

URL: https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UFE0021551

► My work examines the formation and the current practices of a Shinto community in North America and what this community can teach us about religion… (more)

▼ My work examines the formation and the current practices of a Shinto community in North America and what this community can teach us about religion in America. This community is called Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America and was established in 1992 by Reverend Koichi Barrish, the first non-Japanese Shinto priest in history. First, I use historical and biographical data to detail the formation of the shrine. Then, I provide a first-hand account of my experiences at the shrine and my interviews with people who participate in Shinto rituals. I have found that while the Shinto at the shrine authentic to its Japanese origins in that its practices come directly from its base shrine in Japan, the shrine's community has become successful by adding elements, such as Aikido or group water purification rituals, that would not necessarily be present in Japan. Furthermore, Tsubaki has managed to gain attention by maintaining extended networks outside of the shrine?s local and religious community, and by being present in the online community in the form of a website and email listserv. Additionally, many people come to the shrine and get involved with Shinto because of the shrine?s connection with Aikido. Others favor ritual purification practices. Still others see Shinto as a way to venerate the sacrality of nature, and become interested in learning more about it because of their love of nature or concern for the environment. Lastly, I compare the past and present Tsubaki community to followers of other Japanese religions in America. In attempting to understand the workings of a specific Shinto community in America, I hope to contribute not only to current scholarship on Shinto, but also to add new data related to the study of religion in America. This community reflects tendencies in this country toward ecumenism and the incorporation of spirituality with growing concern for the natural environment. My examination of the community also puts it in conversation with other Asian religions in America on the issue of ethnicity. Finally, this work also sheds light on the future prospects of Tsubaki Grand Shrine and Shinto in America. ( en ) Advisors/Committee Members: Poceski, Mario (committee chair), Neelis, Jason E. (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Aikido; Buddhism; Ceremonies; Japanese culture; Priests; Religion; Rituals; Shintoism; Shrine Shinto; Zen Buddhism; aikido, america, amulet, buddhism, hawaii, japan, japanese, kami, meditation, misogi, purification, religion, ritual, shinto, shrine, tsubaki, water; City of Gainesville ( local )

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Spaid Ishida, S. (2008). The Making of an American Shinto Community. (Masters Thesis). University of Florida. Retrieved from https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UFE0021551

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Spaid Ishida, Sarah. “The Making of an American Shinto Community.” 2008. Masters Thesis, University of Florida. Accessed March 05, 2021. https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UFE0021551.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Spaid Ishida, Sarah. “The Making of an American Shinto Community.” 2008. Web. 05 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Spaid Ishida S. The Making of an American Shinto Community. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Florida; 2008. [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UFE0021551.

Council of Science Editors:

Spaid Ishida S. The Making of an American Shinto Community. [Masters Thesis]. University of Florida; 2008. Available from: https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UFE0021551

30. Recchio, Devin T. Constructing Abe no Seimei: Integrating Genre and Disparate Narratives in Yumemakura Baku's Onmyōji.

Degree: University of Massachusetts

URL: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/110

► The Onmyōji series has had an incredible impact on Japanese fiction. It has created an entire genre of material called onmyōjimono and sold 5… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Abe no Seimei; Onmyōji; Comparative Literature; Edo; Exorcism; Japanese Studies; Modern Languages; Modern Literature; Other Classics; Other Religion

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Recchio, D. T. (n.d.). Constructing Abe no Seimei: Integrating Genre and Disparate Narratives in Yumemakura Baku's Onmyōji. (Thesis). University of Massachusetts. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/110

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Recchio, Devin T. “Constructing Abe no Seimei: Integrating Genre and Disparate Narratives in Yumemakura Baku's Onmyōji.” Thesis, University of Massachusetts. Accessed March 05, 2021. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/110.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Recchio, Devin T. “Constructing Abe no Seimei: Integrating Genre and Disparate Narratives in Yumemakura Baku's Onmyōji.” Web. 05 Mar 2021.

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Recchio DT. Constructing Abe no Seimei: Integrating Genre and Disparate Narratives in Yumemakura Baku's Onmyōji. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Massachusetts; [cited 2021 Mar 05]. Available from: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/110.

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Recchio DT. Constructing Abe no Seimei: Integrating Genre and Disparate Narratives in Yumemakura Baku's Onmyōji. [Thesis]. University of Massachusetts; Available from: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/110

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