Handbook of Women in Japanese Buddhism

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This handbook explores Buddhist women’s lives and agency from ancient times to the present in Japan.The book examines lives and representations of Buddhist women by utilizing a thematic approach, with each theme representing a network of interrelated gender roles, norms and hierarchies that determine the conditions under which women “lived” and “live” Buddhism. The contributions highlight what it meant and means to be Buddhist and a woman in the context of gendered power-structures as expressed in the realms of spatial organization, medicine and healthcare, music and sound, embodied gender and sexuality, and visual and material culture.Exploring a topic which has previously been under-represented in scholarship, this will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of religious, Japanese and gender studies.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-08-13
Mått174 x 246 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieHandbooks on Japanese Studies
Antal sidor364
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781041279037

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Monika Schrimpf is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Her research interests are in the field of modern and contemporary Buddhism in Japan, with a particular interest in gendered Buddhism and the entanglement of medicine and religion in contemporary Japan. Emily B. Simpson holds a PhD from the University of California at Santa Barbara and is currently Assistant Professor in the Department for the Study of Religions at Wake Forest University, USA. Her areas of interest include the conceptualization of Shinto and Buddhist deities as well as the construction of womanhood and gender in religious narratives, especially origin stories.

Introduction Part 1: Women, Gender and Buddhism: Three Key Periods of Japanese History 1. Women, Gender and Buddhism in Japanese History: Ancient and Medieval Periods 2. Female Practitioners in the Edo and Early Meiji Periods 3. Women in Japanese Buddhism from 1900 to 2023 Part 2: Gendered Spaces, Gendering Spaces 4. Gendered Practice Halls: Jishū in the 14th and 15th Centuries 5. Working through Gender in Buddhist Spaces Part 3: Music, Sound and Performative Practice 6. Visions of Lumbini: Music, Buddhism and Women’s Organizations in Early 20th-Century Japan 7. The Women Behind the Spread of Honganji Shin-Buddhism in Pre-World War II Hawai’i: The English Buddhist Hymns of Dorothy Hunt (1886-1983) 8. Women’s Voices in Ritual Vocalization: Moving Beyond Biological Boundaries Part 4: Gendered Sexuality and Embodiment 9. The Depraved Empress: Sexuality and Womanhood in the Demonization of Empress Shōtōku 10. Questioning the Shaven Head: Hair, Commitment and Gendered Presentation among Ordained Women in Contemporary Nichiren Buddhism Part 5: Medicine, Healthcare and Longevity Rituals 11. Beyond Obstructions and Pollutions: Women, Buddhism and Healing in Pre-Modern Japan 12. Inside the Womb: Buddhism and the Female Body in the Edo Period 13. Health and Well Being as Ordained Women’s Buddhist Practice Part 6: Material and Visual Culture 14. Hair-related Practices and Female Religiosity in Japanese Buddhism 15. Lavish Materiality: Visual Ornamentation as Skillful Means in Japan’s Heian and Kamakura Periods 16. Women and Buddhism through Material Culture: Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood from Early Modern to Contemporary Japan Part 7: Reflections on the Field 17. Dōgen’s Message and Early Modern Sōtō Nuns in Japan 18. Reflections on the Household System and its Impact on Gender Inequality in Japanese Buddhism