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Book Review: Karma and Punishment: Prison Chaplaincy in Japan. by Adam Lyons |
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Michon, Nathan (著)
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| Source |
Pacific World: Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies
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| Volume | v.3 Series Four |
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| Date | 2022 |
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| Pages | 185 - 192 |
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| Publisher | Institute of Buddhist Studies |
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http://www.shin-ibs.edu/
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| Location | Berkeley, CA, US [伯克利, 加利福尼亞州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article; 書評=Book Review |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Keyword | Buddhist chaplaincy; chaplaincy; Japan; prison chaplaincy; prisons; review |
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| Abstract | Adam Lyons begins one chapter of his volume, Karma and Punishment: Prison Chaplaincy in Japan, with a joke he says he heard regularly among kyōkaishi, a Japanese role he translates as “prison chaplain”: “Why did you become a prison chaplain? ‘Because I did something terrible in a past life to deserve it’” (p. 216). The wry joke encapsulates some of the heavy and complex stressors that the position entails. Adam Lyons’ volume skillfully navigates the complex tensions involved in the role at present and how it developed since the late 1800s. Karma and Punishment takes the reader on a historical journey to show the origins of kyōkaishi; he shows both how they changed and what stayed consistent through different periods of history. Along the way, Lyons ties these developments to a valuable discourse on the religion-state relations and the evolving laws that oversee those connections. |
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| ISSN | 08973644 (E) |
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| View book details | Karma and Punishment: Prison Chaplaincy in Japan. Lyons, Adam (著). Cambridge, MA, US [劍橋, 麻薩諸塞州, 美國]: Harvard University Press, 2021.07.06. 400. 9780674260153. (hc).; 0674260155. |
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| Created date | 2022.12.23 |
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| Modified date | 2022.12.23 |
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