{"product_id":"secularities-in-japan-9789004517363","title":"Secularities in Japan","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume brings together contributions that, from different disciplinary perspectives, highlight certain aspects and problems related to the configuration of the relationship between the religious and the secular in Japan. In the background stands the question of the historical path dependencies that lead to the formation of a specifically Japanese secularity. Based on the assumption that existing epistemic and social structures shape the way in which Western concepts of secularism were appropriated, the individual case studies demonstrate that the culturally specific appropriation of Western regulatory principles such as secularism has created problems that are of political relevance in contemporary Japan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Secularities in Japan   Ugo Dessì and Christoph Kleine    Formations of Secularity in Ancient Japan? On Cultural Encounters, Critical Junctures, and Path-Dependent Processes   Christoph Kleine    Religion, Medicine and the Notion of Charity in Early Jesuit Missionary Pursuits in Buddhist Japan   Katja Triplett    Secularization and the Jōruri Plays: The Decline of Religious Belief and the Search for Secular Salvation in Early Modern Japan   Kawata Koh 川田耕    “Even Three-Year-Old Children Know That the Source of Enlightenment is not Religion but Science”: Modern Japanese Buddhism between ‘Religion’ and ‘Science,’ 1860s–1910s   Hans Martin Krämer    Practicing Belonging? Non-religiousness in Twenty-First Century Japan   Fujiwara Satoko    World Heritage, Secularisation, and the New “Public Sacred” in East Asia   Aike P. Rots","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210845610327,"sku":"9789004517363","price":54.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/secularities-in-japan-9789004517363","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}