On the Boundary between "Religious" and "Secular": The Ideal and Practice of Neo-Confucian Self-Cultivation in Modern Japanese Economic Life

The Neo-Confucian idea of self-cultivation has a long history of being applied to economic life in Japan. This paper looks at this history, beginning with the early development of the idea of self-cultivation in Sung China and its adoption into Japan and further development during the Tokugawa and m...

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Main Author: Ornatowski, Gregory K. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Nanzan Institute [1998]
In: Japanese journal of religious studies
Year: 1998, Volume: 25, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 345-376
Further subjects:B Merchants
B Buddhism
B Morality
B Traditions
B Neo Confucianism
B Religious Studies
B Samurai
B Confucianism
B Economic life
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