Hansen’s disease; Pure Land; emotions; compassion; Japanese Buddhism
摘要
This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork among Japanese Shin Buddhists who have an enduring commitment to volunteering with Hansen's disease patients in Japan and its former colonies. I trace the negotiation of emotions in this Jōdo Shinshū ethical context, identifying the Buddhist, Japanese, and global liberal vocabularies that ascribe moral value to various emotional responses to suffering and injustice. I argue that for these Buddhists, companionship rather than compassion serves as both an ethical ideal and a focal point of emotional practice.
目次
ABSTRACT 720 1 Affect and the Public Moral Discourse on Hansen's Disease 723 2 Kaneko's Relationship with Hansen's Disease 727 3 Moral Emotions in the Shin Buddhist Context 731 REFERENCES 734
