REVIEW ARTICLES How Progressive is Pure Land Buddhism? A Review of Melissa Anne-Marie Curley's Pure Land, Real World: Modern Buddhism, Japanese Leftists, and the Utopian Imagination
Pure Land, Real World: Modern Buddhism, Japanese Leftists, and the Utopian Imagination. By Melissa Anne-Marie Curley. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017. 280 pages. Hardcover: ISBN 978-0-8248-5775-2.
摘要
For well over a century, efforts by numerous thinkers both Japanese and Western1 have continued to attempt to put the Jōdo Shinshū 浄土真宗 tradition into better conversation with global religious and philosophical traditions. Within this already complex history, Melissa Curley’s book offers a series of sophisticated new excursions into some of the Japanese thought over the centuries that has interacted, in more and less loosely defined ways, with “the” Pure Land tradition. Curley opens her study with panache.
