Japanese Buddhism and Ireland
This article argues that there is no single relationship between Japanese Buddhism and Ireland. Rather, there is a series of changing relationships mediated by different world-system contexts between one island and another (peripheral and post-colonial) one: as ethnographic information, as cultural...
| Published in: | Journal of Religion in Japan |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2022
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Journal of Religion in Japan
Year: 2022, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 28-56 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Ireland
/ Japan
/ Buddhism
/ Reception
/ Congregation
/ Geschichte Anfänge-2022
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism KBF British Isles KBM Asia RB Church office; congregation RJ Mission; missiology TA History |
| Further subjects: | B
cultural reception
B Religious Studies B Migration B Ireland B Japanese Buddhism B Western Buddhism |
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| Summary: | This article argues that there is no single relationship between Japanese Buddhism and Ireland. Rather, there is a series of changing relationships mediated by different world-system contexts between one island and another (peripheral and post-colonial) one: as ethnographic information, as cultural influence and as religious practice. The process of building such relationships has a long history, stretching back to the Irish reception of both Jesuit and traveller’s accounts of Japan, later made concrete by early intermediaries like Lafcadio Hearn / Koizumi Yakumo and Charles Pfoundes. W.B. Yeats in particular helped to give Japanese Buddhism a significant place in Irish culture, notably in poetry. From the 1960s and 1970s, Japanese Buddhists started to settle in Ireland and Japanese Buddhism began to be practiced; both are now an established part of the Irish religious landscape. The article sketches this history, culminating in the present situation of Japanese Buddhism in Ireland. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-8349 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Religion in Japan
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22118349-01002008 |