Jeff Wilson, Renison University College, University of Waterloo; jewilson@renison.uwaterloo.ca
摘要
With the release of Ethics and Society in Contemporary Shin Buddhism, Ugo Dessi has done a valuable service for scholars interested in Buddhist ethics, modern Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism, or Japanese religion and society. Dessi does a good job of providing an initial broaching of the subject by giving a broad overview of Shin Buddhist sources for ethics, discussing many different contemporary Shin philosophers’ approaches to the subject, highlighting the social issues that Shin ethics has been most involved with, and exploring some of their practical effects in terms of activism and effects on Japanese society.
