Traversing the Nenbutsu: The Power of Ritual in Contemporary Japanese Buddhism

IF 0.3 3区 哲学 0 RELIGION JAPANESE JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI:10.18874/JJRS.46.1.2019.31-51
Gwendolyn Gillson
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Gwendolyn Gillson is Assistant Professor of Asian studies at Illinois College. Japanese Buddhism is often disparagingly called “funeral Buddhism” due to its supposed focus on death care. This is accompanied by a belief that contemporary Buddhism is spiritually bankrupt, merely carrying out meaningless rituals. However, the women in the Bukkyō josei no tsudoi and the nenbutsu meeting affiliated with the Jōdoshū, one of the sects of funeral Buddhism, reveal how contemporary Buddhist women actively work through ritual to create meaningful relationships with one another. Utilizing Catherine Bell’s concept of ritualization and Ronald Grimes’s concept of ritual phases, this ethnographic study shows how the different phases of the meetings work together to create both formal and informal ritual that is intentional, effective, and important to the women who perform it. These women illustrate the enduring dedication to traditional Buddhist ritual practices that they see as important for personal and spiritual growth.
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穿越能布苏:日本现代佛教的仪式力量
格温多林·吉尔森(Gwendolyn Gillson)是伊利诺伊大学亚洲研究助理教授。日本佛教通常被轻蔑地称为“葬礼佛教”,因为它被认为关注死亡护理。这伴随着一种信念,即当代佛教在精神上已经破产,只是在进行无意义的仪式。然而,在葬礼佛教教派之一Jōdoshū下属的北礼社和女菩萨会中的女性,揭示了当代佛教女性如何积极地通过仪式来建立彼此之间有意义的关系。利用凯瑟琳·贝尔的仪式化概念和罗纳德·格莱姆斯的仪式阶段概念,这项民族志研究展示了会议的不同阶段如何共同创造正式和非正式的仪式,这些仪式是有意的,有效的,对执行仪式的女性来说很重要。这些妇女体现了她们对传统佛教仪式的持久奉献,她们认为这对个人和精神成长很重要。
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期刊介绍: The Japanese Journal of Religious Studies is a peer-reviewed journal registered as an Open Access Journal with all content freely downloadable. The journal began in 1960 as Contemporary Religions in Japan, which was changed to the JJRS in 1974. It has been published by the Nanzan Institute since 1981. The JJRS aims for a multidisciplinary approach to the study of religion in Japan, and submissions are welcomed from scholars in all fields of the humanities and social sciences. To submit a manuscript or inquiry about publishing in our journal, please contact us at the address below.
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