Death and social order in Tokugawa Japan : Buddhism, anti-Christianity, and the danka system /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hur, Nam-lin
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : 2007.
Series:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 282.
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Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The rise of funerary Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan
  • pt. 1. The origin of the danka system. Trade, anti-Christianity, and Buddhism, 1600-1632
  • From suppression to Buddhist inspection, 1633-1651
  • Population surveillance and temple certification, 1651-1709
  • pt. 2. The danka system and funerary Buddhism. The social mode of the danka system
  • Buddhist mortuary rituals
  • Memorial services for the new spirit
  • The annual veneration of ancestral deities
  • Funerary Buddhism and Ie Society
  • pt. 3. The cultural politics of the danka system. Danna patrons, Buddhist death, and funerary temples
  • Danna temples, the state, and anti-Buddhist criticism
  • Funeral practice, public authority, and social control
  • Filial piety, feudal ethics, and wandering spirits
  • pt. 4. Funerary buddhism and Shinto funerals. Shinto funeral movements in the Bakumatsu
  • Shinto funerals in early Meiji Japan
  • Conclusion.