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The Center of European Languages of Qom(Ale Beit Publications)
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| Document Type
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BL
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| Record Number
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2853
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b15278
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| Language of Document
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English
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| Main Entry
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Covell, Stephen Grover, 1965
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| Title & Author
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Japanese temple Buddhism:worldliness in a religion of renunciation/ Stephen G. Covell
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| Publication Statement
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Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press,, c2005.
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| Series Statement
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(Topics in contemporary Buddhism)
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| Page. NO
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xii, 256 p.: ; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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9780824828561(alk.paper)
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| Notes
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Print
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-249) and index.
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| Contents
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Temple Buddhism today: scholarly and popular images of corruption -- Laity and the temple: past and present -- Trying to have it both ways: the laity in a world-renouncer organization? -- The contemporary priesthood: images of identity crisis -- New priests for new times? -- Coming to terms: temple wives and world-renouncers -- Money and the temple: law, taxes and the image of Buddhism -- The price of naming the dead: funerals, posthumous precept names, and changing views of the afterlife.
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| Subject
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BuddhismJapan--History--1945
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Buddhist priestsJapan--Office
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| Dewey Classification
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294.3.650952
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| LC Classification
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BQ697.C67 2005
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