Modern Passings: Death Rites, Politics, and Social Change in Imperial Japan 9780824841584
What to do with the dead? In Imperial Japan, as elsewhere in the modernizing world, answering this perennial question
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English Pages 256 Year 2006
Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Of Buddhas and Ancestors
2. The Shinto Challenge to Buddhist Death
3. The Great Cremation Debate
4. Divesting Shinto Funerals
5. Grave Matters
6. Dying in Style
Epilogue: The Japanese Way of Death and Its Critics
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Of Buddhas and Ancestors
2. The Shinto Challenge to Buddhist Death
3. The Great Cremation Debate
4. Divesting Shinto Funerals
5. Grave Matters
6. Dying in Style
Epilogue: The Japanese Way of Death and Its Critics
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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