This essay explores and identifies the concepts and practices associated with the phenomenon of Jizō worship in Japan in the past and the present, with particular emphasis on the commercialization of the phenomenon through mizuko kuyō rituals.Iva Lakić Parać...
As noted below, current Japanese constitutional law guarantees religious freedom, requires the government to treat all religions equally, and requires the government to be neutral between religion and non-religion if possible.3 Japan, therefore, has not had to significantly change its practices in ...
Journal of Religion in Japan The peer-reviewed Journal of Religion in Japan (JRJ) constitutes a venue for academic research in the complex and multifaceted field of Japanese religion. The Journal takes into consideration Japanese religious phenomena through their historical developments and contemporary e...
Praying for practical benefits is a common religious activity in Japan. Basing their work on a fusion of textual, ethnographic, historical and contemporary studies, the authors of this volume demonstrate that far from being marginal, the concepts and practices surrounding "genze riyaku" lie at the...
The paper then analyzes the forma tion of Shingon orthodoxy as an attempt to systematize the Tantric field in Japan through a re-organization of preexisting religious doctrines and practices. Special attention is given to the actual articulation of the ken mitsu episteme and its orders of ...
In Japan, spiritual care practices and discussions are carried out primarily in the field of end-of-life care, and wherein spiritual care has normally been... K Yamamoto,K Kasai,K Uchimoto - 《Bulletin of Tenri Health Care University》 被引量: 0发表: 2021年 A Nichirenist's View of Sh...
the doctrines and practices of Shinto, the native religion of Japan, especially its system of nature and ancestor worship. —Shinto,n., adj.—Shintoistic,adj. simonism the practices of simony, especially the making of a profit out of sacred things. —simonist,n.—simoniac,n., adj.—simon...
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Millenarianism also underlies the New Age movement that arose in the 1970s and ’80s. The New Age movement is an extremely eclectic conglomeration of beliefs and practices that includes channeling, crystal healing, new versions of shamanism, and a variety of therapies and techniques designed to ...