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Audience, Authorship, and Agency: Religious Educational Materials for Modern Buddhist Women's Groups in Japan |
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Starling, Jessica (著)
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| Source |
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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| Volume | v.90 n.2 |
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| Date | 2022.06 |
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| Pages | 473 - 492 |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
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| Publisher Url |
http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/
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| Location | Oxford, UK [牛津, 英國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Author Affiliation: Lewis & Clark College, USA |
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| Abstract | The canonical Buddhist sutras were always delivered on the occasion of a particular gathered audience. I apply this basic premise of Buddhist doctrinal production to a body of religious literature produced for women in Japan from the 1890s to the 1910s to help resolve the scholarly conundrum of how to trace female religious agency in the absence of named female authorship. I identify women’s agency as being exercised through reading rather than writing, and through gathering to listen to teachings rather than delivering sermons themselves. I conclude that providing an engaged presence for the teachings is an important form of religious agency in Buddhist and other contexts. Taking a demand-side (rather than supply-side) approach to understanding Buddhist propagation during this period also illuminates the shifting field of competition for the support and collaboration of religious women in modern Japan. |
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| Table of contents | Abstract 473
Ethnography, Historiography, and Women’s Agency 474
Audience as Agency: Educated, Gathered Women 478
The Problem of Women's Salvation in Pure Land Buddhism 482
The Modern "Woman Problem" and Its Buddhist Solutions 484
Conclusion: On Being an Occasion for Buddhist Teaching 489
References 490 |
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| ISSN | 00027189 (P); 14774585 (E) |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfac029 |
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| Created date | 2024.04.16 |
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| Modified date | 2024.04.18 |
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