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New Perspectives in Modern Korean Buddhism

Institution, Gender, and Secular Society

By: Hwansoo Ilmee Kim,Jin Y. Park

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New Perspectives in Modern Korean Buddhism

Institution, Gender, and Secular Society

By: Hwansoo Ilmee Kim,Jin Y. Park

New Perspectives in Modern Korean Buddhism moves beyond nationalistic, modernist, and ethnocentric historiographies of modern Korean Buddhism by carefully examining individuals' lived experiences, the institutional dimensions of Korean Buddhism, and its place in transnational conversations. Drawing upon rich archives as well as historical, anthropological, and literary approaches, the book examines four themes that have gained attention in recent years: perennial existential concerns and the persistent relevance of religious practice; the role of female Buddhists; clerical marriage and scandals; and engagement with secular society. The book reveals the limits of metanarratives, such as those of colonialism, nationalism, and modernity, in understanding the complex and contested identities of both monastics and laity, thus demanding that we diversify the methods by which we articulate the history of modern Korean Buddhism.

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State University of New York Press

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1438491336

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9781438491332

The Korean Buddhist Empire

A Transnational History (1910-1945)

By: Hwansoo Ilmee Kim

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The Korean Buddhist Empire

A Transnational History (1910-1945)

By: Hwansoo Ilmee Kim

In the first part of the twentieth century, Korean Buddhists, despite living under colonial rule, reconfigured sacred objects, festivals, urban temples, propagation—and even their own identities—to modernize and elevate Korean Buddhism. By focusing on six case studies, this book highlights the centrality of transnational relationships in the transformation of colonial Korean Buddhism.Hwansoo Ilmee Kim examines how Korean, Japanese, and other Buddhists operating in colonial Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, Manchuria, and beyond participated in and were significantly influenced by transnational forces, even as Buddhists of Korea and other parts of Asia were motivated by nationalist and sectarian interests. More broadly, the cases explored in the The Korean Buddhist Empire reveal that, while Japanese Buddhism exerted the most influence, Korean Buddhism was (as Japanese Buddhism was itself) deeply influenced by developments in China, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Europe, and the United States, as well as by Christianity.

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BRILL

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1684175925

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Empire of the Dharma

Korean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877–1912

By: Hwansoo Ilmee Kim

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Empire of the Dharma

Korean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877–1912

By: Hwansoo Ilmee Kim

Empire of the Dharma explores the dynamic relationship between Korean and Japanese Buddhists in the years leading up to the Japanese annexation of Korea. Conventional narratives cast this relationship in politicized terms, with Korean Buddhists portrayed as complicit in the “religious annexation” of the peninsula. However, this view fails to account for the diverse visions, interests, and strategies that drove both sides. Hwansoo Ilmee Kim complicates this politicized account of religious interchange by reexamining the “alliance” forged in 1910 between the Japanese Soto sect and the Korean Wonjong order. The author argues that their ties involved not so much political ideology as mutual benefit. Both wished to strengthen Buddhism’s precarious position within Korean society and curb Christianity’s growing influence. Korean Buddhist monastics sought to leverage Japanese resources as a way of advancing themselves and their temples, and missionaries of Japanese Buddhist sects competed with one another to dominate Buddhism on the peninsula. This strategic alliance pushed both sides to confront new ideas about the place of religion in modern society and framed the way that many Korean and Japanese Buddhists came to think about the future of their shared religion.

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1684175208

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Empire of the Dharma

Korean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877–1912

By: Hwansoo Ilmee Kim

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Korean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877–1912

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Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia

By: Jeffrey Samuels,Justin Thomas McDaniel,Mark Michael Rowe

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Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia

By: Jeffrey Samuels,Justin Thomas McDaniel,Mark Michael Rowe

This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers will encounter artists, psychologists, social workers, part-time priests, healers, and librarians as well as charlatans, hucksters, profiteers, and rabble-rousers—all whose lives reflect changes in modern Buddhism even as they themselves shape the course of these changes. The editors and contributors are fundamentally concerned with how individual Buddhists make meaning and display this understanding to others. Some practitioners profiled look to the past, lamenting the transformations Buddhism has undergone in recent times, while others embrace these. Some have adopted a “new asceticism,” while others are eager to explore different religious traditions as they think about their own ways of being Buddhist. Arranging the profiles according to these themes—looking backward, forward, inward, and outward—reveals the value of studying individual Buddhists and their idiosyncratic religious backgrounds and attitudes, thus highlighting the diversity of approaches to the practice and study of Buddhism in Asia today. Students and teachers will welcome sections on further readings and additional tables of contents that organize the profiles thematically, as well as by tradition (Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana), region, and country.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824858581

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9780824858582

Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality

Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions

By: Karen-Marie Yust,Aostre N. Johnson,Sandy Eisenberg Sasso,Eugene C. Roehlkepartain

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Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality

Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions

By: Karen-Marie Yust,Aostre N. Johnson,Sandy Eisenberg Sasso,Eugene C. Roehlkepartain

Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions provides a forum for prominent religious scholars to examine the state of religious knowledge and theological reflection on spiritual development in childhood and adolescence. Featuring essays from thinkers representing the world's major religious traditions, the book introduces new voices, challenges assumptions, raises new questions, and broadens the base of knowledge and investment in this important domain of life. It specifically and intentionally focuses on theological and philosophical perspectives from within religious traditions, creating space for the religious traditions to find their voices. Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality is firmly grounded in the language and priorities of religious studies, and helps stimulate explorations of whether and how religious communities are tapping their own wisdom and strengths in nurturing today's young people in a complex and changing world. Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality will set the stage for new waves of scholarship and dialogue within and across traditions, disciplines, and cultures that will enrich understanding and strengthen how the world's religious traditions, and others, understand and cultivate the spiritual lives of children and adolescents around the globe.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1461665906

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9781461665908

Book's by Hwansoo Ilmee Kim

New Perspectives in Modern Korean Buddhism

New Perspectives in Modern Korean Buddhism

The Korean Buddhist Empire

The Korean Buddhist Empire

Empire of the Dharma

Empire of the Dharma

Empire of the Dharma

Empire of the Dharma

Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia

Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia

Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality

Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality

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