Secularization and the Jōruri Plays: The Decline of Religious Belief and the Search for Secular Salvation in Early Modern Japan
This paper aims to show, primarily through analysis of seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century jōruri 浄瑠璃 plays, the radical changes in the vision of salvation shared among ordinary people, focusing especially on Jōruri monogatari 浄瑠璃物語, Sonezaki shinjū 曽根崎心中 and Kinpira jōruri 金平浄瑠璃, and highligh...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2019]
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| In: |
Journal of Religion in Japan
Year: 2019, Volume: 8, Issue: 1/3, Pages: 76-97 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Japan
/ Jōruri
/ Religiosity
/ Decline
/ Secularism
/ History 1600-1700
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AG Religious life; material religion KBM Asia |
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Salvation
B Secularization B Goddess B Chikamatsu Monzaemon B Jōruri B state power |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (Publisher) Volltext (doi) |
