| center | : | The Center of European Languages of Qom(Ale Beit Publications) |
| Document Type | : | BL |
| Record Number | : | 2853 |
| Doc. No | : | b15278 |
| Language of Document | : | English |
| Main Entry | : | Covell, Stephen Grover, 1965 |
| Title & Author | : | Japanese temple Buddhism:worldliness in a religion of renunciation/ Stephen G. Covell |
| Publication Statement | : | Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press,, c2005. |
| Series Statement | : | (Topics in contemporary Buddhism) |
| Page. NO | : | xii, 256 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN | : | 9780824828561(alk.paper) |
| Notes | : | Print |
| Bibliographies/Indexes | : | Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-249) and index. |
| Contents | : | 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. |
| Subject | : | BuddhismJapan--History--1945 |
| Subject | : | Buddhist priestsJapan--Office |
| Dewey Classification | : | 294.3.650952 |
| LC Classification | : | BQ697.C67 2005 |