Mortuary Practices, Buddhism, and Family Relations in Japanese Society

Death, society and archaeology: the social dimensions of mortuary practices

While the material remains of death and the treatment and commemoration of the dead have been studied by archaeologists since the early nineteenth century, the more intensive and coherent analysis of death in its social context has only been a feature of this discipline during the last three decades. The starting point for this change of emphasis was James Brown’s edited volume Approaches to th...

Winds of Change? Japanese Human Resource Practices and Industrial Relations

During an extended period of economic recession for most of the 1990s, broad and striking changes have been made to the Japanese employment system. How fundamental or reversible they are is harder to evaluate. This paper discusses the Japanese employment system and its changes. It is concluded that if the economic recovery prevails, a considerable stabilization of Japanese human resource practi...

Buddhism and Social Relations in Contemporary Sri Lanka

Basto de Albuquerque Intellectuals and Japanese Buddhism in Brazil 61

intellectuals as a group of spiritual practices and as a body of spiritual wisdom. The study has been realized through readings and meetings with Japanese Buddhist monks and/or Japanese immigrants. These intellectuals defend a religious experience based on a universal notion of representations of Japanese Buddhism, which provides them with a non-dualistic philosophical perspective and a unique ...

Rights, centers, and peripheries: experimental moves in Japanese Buddhism

Correspondence: [email protected] Lewis & Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd, Portland, OR 97219, USA Abstract In this paper I examine how the Japanese True Pure Land Buddhist school (Jōdo Shinshū or Shin Buddhism) has attempted to come to terms with the position of temple wife (bōmori), which has historically been a local position based solely on marriage ties to the resident priest of...