Karma and Punishment: Prison Chaplaincy in Japan

Lyons, Adam (著)

著者

Lyons, Adam (著)

巻号

Series Four

出版年月日

2021.07.06

ページ

400

出版者

Harvard University Press

出版サイト

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/

出版地

Cambridge, MA, US [劍橋, 麻薩諸塞州, 美國]

資料の種類

書籍=Book

言語

英文=English

ノート

Adam J. Lyons is Assistant Professor at Keio University.

抄録

Despite being one of the most avowedly secular nations in the world, Japan may have more prison chaplains per inmate than any other country, the majority of whom are Buddhist priests. In this groundbreaking study of prison religion in East Asia, Adam Lyons introduces a form of chaplaincy rooted in the Buddhist concept of doctrinal admonition rather than Euro-American notions of spiritual care.
Based on archival research, fieldwork inside prisons, and interviews with chaplains, Karma and Punishment reveals another dimension of Buddhist modernism that developed as Japan’s religious organizations carved out a niche as defenders of society by fighting crime. Between 1868 and 2020, generations of clergy have been appointed to bring religious instruction to bear on a range of offenders, from illegal Christian heretics to Marxist political dissidents, war criminals, and death row inmates. The case of the prison chaplaincy shows that despite constitutional commitments to freedom of religion and separation of religion from state, statism remains an enduring feature of mainstream Japanese religious life in the contemporary era.

List of Figures and Tables
Preface: The Heart Sutra in the Prison Chapel
Acknowledgments
Note to the Reader
Introduction
1. Defend the Dharma, Admonish the Heretics
2. The Way of Repentance and the Great Promulgation Campaign
3. The Ideal of Harmony between Dharma and Law
4. Thought Crimes and the Opium of the Masses
5. War Crimes and the Discovery of Peace
6. The Spirit of Public Service and the Social Role for Religions
7. The Dilemmas of Bad Karma
Conclusion: At the Altar of Doctrinal Admonition
Appendix A: Tenrikyō Group Chaplaincy Session Field Notes
Appendix B: Interview with Hirano Shunkō, Death Row Chaplain at Tokyo Jail
Notes
Bibliography
Index
* Figures and Tables
Figures
I.1. Map of Japan
1.1. Ōura Church, 1865
1.2. Instructions from the Department of State (Dajōkan) regarding the treatment of illegal Christians, 1868
1.3. Detainment and exile of illegal Christians, 1870–1873 (map)
1.4. Aikawa Chūeimon, 1938
1.5. Urakami Christians, 1938
2.1. Japanese prison population, 1877–1990 (graph)
2.2. Expansion of prison chaplaincy, 1872–1885 (map)
3.1. Inmates assembled in the chapel for a chaplain’s lecture, 1895
3.2. Prison chaplains preparing for work, 1895
3.3. Chaplains perform rites before a prison altar, 1895
3.4. A chaplain visits a group cell, 1895
3.5. Abashiri Prison chapel interior
3.6. Abashiri Prison chapel exterior
5.1. Fuchū Prison chapel interior
5.2. Fuchū Prison chapel exterior
5.3. Fuchū Prison chapel garden
5.4. Fuchū Prison, third-floor chapel for individual use
5.5. The committee to promote prison chaplaincy meeting at the Ministry of Justice, 1956
6.1. Buddhist group chaplaincy session, lecture
6.2. Shinto group chaplaincy session, oharai ritual purification
6.3. Christian group chaplaincy session, Christmas service
6.4. Buddhist group chaplaincy session, Ohigan service
7.1. Individual chaplaincy session
Tables
I.1. Prison chaplains by sectarian affiliation, 2018
I.2. International comparison of prison chaplain-to-prisoner ratios, 2010s
1.1. Detainment and forced conversion of illegal Christians, 1873
2.1. Conversion of physical punishments to imprisonment, 1872
2.2. Japanese prison population, 1877–1990
2.3. Expansion of prison chaplaincy, 1872–1885
4.1. Arrests of thought criminals under the Peace Preservation Law, 1928–1943
5.1. Survey of inmates’ religious preferences, 1947
5.2. Expansion of prison chaplaincy, 1964–2020

ISBN

9780674260153 (hc); 0674260155

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