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This book explores the globalisation of Shin Buddhism through an examination of ritual practice and its transformations in four main geographical areas: Japan, the United States, South America, and Europe.
Interrogating conservative and mono-ethnic images of Shin Buddhism, linked to the preservation of Japanese identity in diaspora communities, it offers a complex picture of this form of Buddhism, as multi-ethnic, multi-lingual and ever-changing. Drawing on historical sources, as well as fieldwork conducted in sites from three continents, the study shows the dynamic and transnational routes and local transformations of contemporary Shin Buddhism. The book further considers a range of ritual expressions of Shin Buddhism, including spatiality and architecture; music; embodiment and performance; and ritual adaptations to new virtual environments since the Covid-19 pandemic. All the authors are ordained Shin Buddhist priests, as well as academics, and bring a perspective which is informed both by academic research and by their first-hand experience of Shin Buddhism, including participation in ritual training.
An analysis of Shin Buddhism as a global religion, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of religious studies, Anthropology, and the sociology of religion. It will also be of interest to researchers in Buddhist Studies and Asian Religions, in particular those interested in Buddhism as a world religion and Buddhist modernism.
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Jōdo Shinshū responses to modernity in Japan: Ritual and its transformations
Chapter 3 Routes of Change: the expansion of Jōdo Shinshū outside Japan
Chapter 4 Creating the Ritual Body
Chapter 5 Ritual space
Chapter 6 Mindfulness and meditation
Chapter 7 Mindfulness of the Buddha, Saying the Name
Chapter 8 Soundscapes of the Pure Land? Music, identity, and adapting to the times in globalising Jōdo Shinshū
Chapter 9 Online Transformations During the Covid Era
Chapter 10 Conclusion - Globalisation and Ritual
