The Global Repositioning Of Japanese Religions

Author : Ugo Dessi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317030125
Total Pages : 234 pages
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Download or read book The Global Repositioning of Japanese Religions written by Ugo Dessi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Global Repositioning of Japanese Religions: An Integrated Approach explores how Japanese religions respond to the relativizing effects of globalization, thereby repositioning themselves as global players. Organized around concrete case studies focusing on the engagement of Japanese Buddhism, Shinto, and several new religious movements in areas such as ecology, inter-religious dialogue, and politics, this book shows that the globalization of Japanese religions cannot be explained simply in terms of worldwide institutional expansion. Rather, it is a complex phenomenon conditioned by a set of pervasive factors: changes in consciousness, the perception of affinities and resonances at the systemic and cultural levels, processes of decontextualization, and a wide range of power issues including the re-enactment of cultural chauvinism. The author investigates these dynamics systematically with attention to broader theoretical questions, cross-cultural similarities, the definition of religion and the perils of ethnocentrism, in order to develop his Global Repositioning model, which constitutes an integrated approach to the study of Japanese religions under globalization. An empirically-grounded and theoretically-informed study of the effects of global trends on local religions, this book will appeal to scholars and students with interests in globalization, religious studies, Japanese studies, Hawaii, sociology, anthropology, and ecology.

Author : Ugo Dessì
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781472480798
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Global Repositioning of Japanese Religions written by Ugo Dessì and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Author's note -- Introduction -- 1 Approaching religion under globalization -- 2 Religious others at the door: inclusivism and pluralism as forms of global repositioning -- 3 Glocal environmentalism: unpacking the greening of religion in Japan -- 4 Meditation à la carte: glocal change in Hawaiian Jōdo Shinshū -- 5 Global repositionings: Risshō Kōseikai, Japan, and the world at large -- 6 Toward an integrated approach: the Global Repositioning model -- Conclusion -- List of Japanese terms -- Bibliography -- Index

Author : Ugo Dessi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317030133
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Global Repositioning of Japanese Religions written by Ugo Dessi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Global Repositioning of Japanese Religions: An Integrated Approach explores how Japanese religions respond to the relativizing effects of globalization, thereby repositioning themselves as global players. Organized around concrete case studies focusing on the engagement of Japanese Buddhism, Shinto, and several new religious movements in areas such as ecology, inter-religious dialogue, and politics, this book shows that the globalization of Japanese religions cannot be explained simply in terms of worldwide institutional expansion. Rather, it is a complex phenomenon conditioned by a set of pervasive factors: changes in consciousness, the perception of affinities and resonances at the systemic and cultural levels, processes of decontextualization, and a wide range of power issues including the re-enactment of cultural chauvinism. The author investigates these dynamics systematically with attention to broader theoretical questions, cross-cultural similarities, the definition of religion and the perils of ethnocentrism, in order to develop his Global Repositioning model, which constitutes an integrated approach to the study of Japanese religions under globalization. An empirically-grounded and theoretically-informed study of the effects of global trends on local religions, this book will appeal to scholars and students with interests in globalization, religious studies, Japanese studies, Hawaii, sociology, anthropology, and ecology.

Author : Peter B Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136828656
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese New Religions in Global Perspective written by Peter B Clarke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1960s virtually every part of the world has seen the arrival and establishment of Japanese new religious movements, a process that has followed quickly on the heels of the most active period of Japanese economic expansion overseas. This book examines the nature and extent of this religious expansion outside Japan.

Author : Ugo Dessì
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415811708
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Religions and Globalization written by Ugo Dessì and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the variety of ways through which Japanese religions (Buddhism, Shintō, and new religious movements) contribute to the dynamics of accelerated globalization in recent decades. It looks at how Japanese religions provide material to cultural global flows, thus acting as carriers of globalization, and how they respond to these flows by shaping new glocal identities. The book highlights how, paradoxically, these processes of religious hybridization may be closely intertwined with the promotion of cultural chauvinism. It shows how on the one hand religion in Japan is engaged in border negotiation with global subsystems such as politics, secular education, and science, and how on the other hand, it tries to find new legitimation by addressing pressing global problems such as war, the environmental crisis, and economic disparities left unsolved by the dominant subsystems. A significant contribution to advancing an understanding of modern Japanese religious life, this book is of interest to academics working in the fields of Japanese Studies, Asian history and religion and the sociology of religion.

Author : Erica Baffelli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350043745
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Handbook of Japanese Religions written by Erica Baffelli and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an overview of current cutting-edge research in the field of Japanese religions, this Handbook is the most up-to-date guide to contemporary scholarship in the field. As well as charting innovative research taking place, this book also points to new directions for future research, covering both the modern and pre-modern periods. Edited by Erica Baffelli, Andrea Castiglioni, and Fabio Rambelli, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Japanese Religions includes essays by international scholars from the USA, Europe, Japan, and New Zealand. Topics and themes include gender, politics, the arts, economy, media, globalization, and colonialism. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Japanese Religions is an essential reference point for upper-level students and scholars of Japanese religions as well as Japanese Studies more broadly.

Author : L.W.C. van Lit
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311074760X
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Humanities and Religions in Asia written by L.W.C. van Lit and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-04 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In pre-modern religions in the geographical context of Asia we encounter unique scripts, number systems, calendars, and naming conventions. These can make Western-built technologies – even tools specifically developed for digital humanities – an ill fit to our needs. The present volume explores this struggle and the limitations and potential opportunities of applying a digital humanities approach to pre-modern Asian religions. The authors cover Buddhism, Christianity, Daoism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism and Shintoism with chapters categorized according to their focus on: 1) temples, 2) manuscripts, 3) texts, and 4) social media. Thus, the volume guides readers through specific methodologies and practical examples while also providing a critical reflection on the state of the field, pushing the interface between digital humanities and pre-modern Asian religions into new territory.

Author : Victor Roudometof
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3038973165
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glocal Religions written by Victor Roudometof and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Glocal Religions" that was published in Religions

Author : Aike P. Rots
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474289959
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan written by Aike P. Rots and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan is the first systematic study of Shinto's environmental turn. The book traces the development in recent decades of the idea of Shinto as an 'ancient nature religion,' and a resource for overcoming environmental problems. The volume shows how these ideas gradually achieved popularity among scientists, priests, Shinto-related new religious movements and, eventually, the conservative shrine establishment. Aike P. Rots argues that central to this development is the notion of chinju no mori: the sacred groves surrounding many Shinto shrines. Although initially used to refer to remaining areas of primary or secondary forest, today the term has come to be extended to any sort of shrine land, signifying not only historical and ecological continuity but also abstract values such as community spirit, patriotism and traditional culture. The book shows how Shinto's environmental turn has also provided legitimacy internationally: influenced by the global discourse on religion and ecology, in recent years the Shinto establishment has actively engaged with international organizations devoted to the conservation of sacred sites. Shinto sacred forests thus carry significance locally as well as nationally and internationally, and figure prominently in attempts to reposition Shinto in the centre of public space.

Author : Roudometof, Victor N.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839109017
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Culture and Glocalization written by Roudometof, Victor N. and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discourse-based approaches to studying organizations have grown in significance over the last 25 years. This accessible and insightful book exemplifies how to use a discursive approach to study organizations. By drawing on her own empirical research, Cynthia Hardy aligns key theoretical assumptions with a range of case studies to demonstrate the value and adaptability of a discursive approach.