Materiality, Labor, and Signification of Sacred Objects in Japanese Buddhism
Recent studies on Buddhist materiality tend to focus on specific objects and their ritual uses, without dedicating much attention to processes of production of those objects and their actual makers. This article begins to redress this situation by outlining a general theoretical framework for the st...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Brill
2017
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Journal of Religion in Japan
Year: 2017, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-26 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Japan
/ Buddhism
/ Cultic object
/ Categorization
/ Value
/ Symbolics
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism KBM Asia |
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Buddhist materiality
Buddhist ontology
Japanese Buddhism and labor
Jinrin kinmō zui
performance and performativity
semiotics
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Volltext (Verlag) |