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Entering the Temple: Priests, Peasants, and Village Contention in Tokugawa Japan |
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Vesey, Alexander M.
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| Source |
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
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| Volume | v.28 n.3-4 |
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| Date | 2001 |
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| Pages | 293 - 328 |
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| Publisher | Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture=南山宗教文化研究所 |
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http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/
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| Location | 名古屋, 日本 [Nagoya, Japan] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Keyword | social structure; nyðji; refuge; social conflict; mediation; danka; Õno village |
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| Abstract | Despite the ubiquity of the Buddhist clergy in rural communities during
the early modern period, these religious ³gures have long been relegated to
the marginalia of social histories on Tokugawa Japan. This article seeks to
re-situate Buddhist temples and their abbatial residents in our models of
village life by looking at nyðji (entering the temple), a form of Buddhist
conμict mediation centering on instances where peasants in trouble with
village authorities sequestrated themselves within temple precincts, and
petitioned the clergy to act on their behalf with the other parties. While
derived from medieval temple asylum practices, the present examination
considers nyðji as a uniquely Tokugawa phenomenon by showing how the
mechanics of nyðji, and the systems of social, political, and religious politics
underlying it, embodied a multiplicity of meanings and functions
which could both simultaneously support, and quietly subvert, the Tokugawa
legal order operating in rural communities. |
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| ISSN | 03041042 (P) |
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| Hits | 524 |
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| Created date | 2013.01.10 |
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| Modified date | 2017.08.28 |
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