Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Part 8 Meiji and Modernity: Political Resettlement and Realignment, Moments of Intellectual Hybridization, Emigration, Collaboration, Postwar Progressivism, Lingering Conservatism -- Shin Buddhism in the Meiji Period -- Against Buddhist Unity: Murakami Senshō and His Sectarian Critics -- The Honganji: Guardian of the State (1868-1945) -- Shinran's Thought in Present-Day Japan -- Propagation, Accommodation and Negotiating Social Capital: Jōdo Shinshū Responses to Contemporary Crises -- Family Temples and Religious Learning in Contemporary Japanese Buddhism -- Shin Buddhist Studies and Secularization -- Amida and Pure Land within a Contemporary Worldview: From Shinran's Literal Symbolism to Figurative Symbolism -- The Medieval and the Modern in Shin Buddhism -- Rethinking Acculturation in the Postmodern World -- Nenbutsu and Meditation: Problems with the Categories of Contemplation, Devotion, Meditation, and Faith -- Index of Personal Names.
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