Peasant Revolts as Anti-Authoritarian Archetypes for Radical Buddhism in Modern Japan

The late Meiji period (1868–1912) witnessed the birth of various forms of “progressive” and “radical” Buddhism both within and beyond traditional Japanese Buddhist institutions. This paper examines several historical precedents for “Buddhist revolution” in East Asian—and particularly Japanese—peasan...

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Main Author: Shields, James Mark (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2016
In: Journal of Religion in Japan
Year: 2016, Volume: 5, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-21
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Japan / Buddhism / Uprising / Reception / History 1400-1912
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
BL Buddhism
KBM Asia
KCD Hagiography; saints
NCA Ethics
TH Late Middle Ages
TJ Modern history
Further subjects:B Buddhist Modernism radical Buddhism peasant rebellion religion and politics
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