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The Buddhist Clergy and Village Society in Early Modern Japan |
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Vesey, Alexander Marshall (著)
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Dissertation Abstracts International
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| Volume | v.63 n.10 Section A |
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| Date | 2003 |
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| Publisher | ProQuest LLC |
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https://www.proquest.com/
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| Location | Ann Arbor, MI, US [安娜堡, 密西根州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Degree | doctor |
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| Institution | Princeton University |
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| Advisor | Howell, David L. |
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| Publication year | 2003 |
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| Note | 582p |
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| Keyword | 方丈=Abbot; 佛教人物=Buddhist; 修行方法=修行法門=Practice |
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| Abstract | This dissertation is a social history of the rural Buddhist clergy in early modern Japan (1600–1868). The central thesis concerns the clergy as one “status” community within the Tokugawa polity. The Tokugawa shogunate strove to implement social order by identifying every individual with a particular status group, each of which served society and the samurai elites by fulfilling a certain duties. This study takes that premise that while the Tokugawa deployed status based limitations, and a growing body of legal codes, to circumscribe the activities of Buddhist clerics, the practice of status also gave the clergy a degree of operational autonomy. Within the context of village life, this study holds that the potential play between status oriented strictures, and status based prerogatives, allowed the Buddhist clergy to exert an active influence over other status communities. The dissertation also examines the ways in which the rural Buddhist clergy's main lay constituency, the peasantry, deployed their own status based rights in their interactions with local temples abbots. This study, therefore, uses the Buddhist clergy to illustrate the creation and manipulation of religious status identity in early modern Japan.
The dissertation covers this theme with a three part analysis. Chapters One and Two detail the regulatory aspects of clerical status governance. Chapter One considers the impact of the complex Tokugawa political and legal order on Buddhist institutions; Chapter Two covers the clergy's own internal regulatory mechanisms, as well as the extent of village authority over clerical affairs. The second section, Chapter Three, considers the creation of Buddhist status identity with a study of clerical educational systems, and rank based hierarchies. The last section consists of a two part study of the clergy's relationship with the peasantry. Chapter Four looks at the interplay between these social communities with a focus on rural temples as a geographical and social nexuses within every early modern village. Chapter Five then goes on to consider the clergy's place in the social economy of village life by looking at clerics as mediators in peasant disputes. |
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| ISBN | 9780493884493 |
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| Hits | 959 |
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| Created date | 2008.05.06 |
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| Modified date | 2022.03.30 |
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