Beethoven and Buddhism in a Japanese Religion: Culture as Cultivation in Soka Gakkai
Abstract Why is the museum at the headquarters of the lay Japanese Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai full of pianos? How did Gakkai members in Japan come to revere the compositions and ethos of Ludwig van Beethoven as means of defending Buddhist orthodoxy? And how did this Buddhist organization come...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2021
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Numen
Année: 2021, Volume: 68, Numéro: 5/6, Pages: 593-618 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Soka Gakkai international
/ Musique classique
/ Buddhisme
/ Développement culturel
/ Évolution religieuse
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Vie religieuse AZ Nouveau mouvement religieux BL Bouddhisme KBM Asie |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Buddhism
B Soka Gakkai B Beethoven B classical music B Aesthetics B Orthodoxy |
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| Résumé: | Abstract Why is the museum at the headquarters of the lay Japanese Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai full of pianos? How did Gakkai members in Japan come to revere the compositions and ethos of Ludwig van Beethoven as means of defending Buddhist orthodoxy? And how did this Buddhist organization come to rely on classical music as a key form of self-cultivation and institution building? This article draws on ethnographic engagements with musicians in Soka Gakkai, along with study of the Gakkai’s development in 20th-century Japan, to detail how practitioners’ Buddho-cultural pursuits demonstrate ways cultural practices can create religion. Attention to Soka Gakkai’s fusions of European high culture with lay Buddhist teachings and practices troubles static definitions of “Buddhism” and signals the need for broader inquiry into the nature of religious belonging through investigations of aesthetic forms. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5276 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685276-12341641 |