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Books of Interest: The Category of ‘Religion’ in Contemporary Japan
Mitsutoshi Horii. The Category of ‘Religion’ in Contemporary Japan: Shūkyō and Temple Buddhism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
This book critically examines the term ‘religion’ (shūkyō) as a social category within the sociological context of contemporary Japan. Whereas the nineteenth-century construction of shūkyō has been critically studied by many, the same critical approach has not been extended to the contemporary context of the Japanese-language discourse on shūkyō and Temple Buddhism. This work aims to unveil the norms and imperatives which govern the utilization of the term shūkyō in the specific context of modern day Japan, with a particular focus upon Temple Buddhism. The author draws on a number of popular publications in Japanese, many of which have been written by Buddhist priests. In addition, the book offers rich interview material from conversations with Buddhist priests.
Readers will gain insights into the critical deconstruction, the historicization, and the study of social classification system of ‘religion’, in terms of its cross-cultural application to the contemporary Japanese context. The book will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including Japanese Studies, Buddhology, Religious Studies, Social Anthropology, and Sociology.
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Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space, and Place
SERIES EDITORS
- Paul-François Tremlett, The Open University, UK paul-francois.tremlett@open.ac.uk
- John Eade, University of Roehampton, London, UK J.Eade@roehampton.ac.uk
- Katy Soar, Royal Holloway, UK katy.soar@rhul.ac.uk
Religions, spiritualities and mysticisms are deeply implicated in processes of spatial and place-making. These include political and geopolitical spaces, local and national spaces, urban spaces, global and virtual spaces, contested spaces, spaces of performance, spaces of memory and spaces of confinement.
At the leading edge of theoretical, methodological, and interdisciplinary innovation in the study of religion, Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place brings together and gives shape to the study of such processes and places. These places are not defined simply by the material or the physical but also by the sensual and the psychological, by the ways in which spaces are gendered, classified, stratified, moved through, seen, touched, heard, interpreted and occupied. Places are constituted through embodied practices that direct critical and analytical attention to the production of insides, outsides, bodies, landscapes, cities, sovereignties, publics and interiorities.
TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE EDITORS
- Ritual & Place-Making (historical, ancient and/or contemporary religious practices)
- Mobility, Power and Place/Pilgrims, Tourists and the Invention of Sacred Space (religion on the move in historical, ancient and/or contemporary contexts)
- Religion, Space and Disruption (the study of religion at times of rapid socio-spatial and political change)
- The Politics of Religious Space (the study of religion, space and power)
- Religion and the City (religion in urban contexts in historical, ancient or contemporary perspectives
CONFIRMED VOLUMES SO FAR:
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Title |
Author/Editor |
Publication Year |
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Religion and the Global City |
David Garbin & Anna Strhan |
2017 |
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Religion, Migration and Globalization |
David Garbin |
2017 |
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A New Theory of Religion and Social Change |
Paul-François Tremlett |
2019 |
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