Christian Wedding Ceremonies: "Nonreligiousness" in Contemporary Japan
Christian wedding ceremonies have, since the mid-1990s, displaced the Shinto rite and continue to remain Japans wedding ceremony of choice. In apparent contrast, the vast majority of Japanese individuals claim to be "nonreligious" or mushūkyō. Using the Christian wedding ceremonies of cont...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2015]
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Japanese journal of religious studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 42, Issue: 2, Pages: 185-203 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Japan
/ Wedding rite
/ Wedding ceremony
/ Christianity
/ Irreligiosity
/ Spirituality
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AG Religious life; material religion AX Inter-religious relations BL Buddhism BN Shinto CB Christian life; spirituality KBM Asia |
| Further subjects: | B
Buddhism
B Religious rituals B Faith B Christianity B Cultural Identity B Marriage B Pastors B Weddings B Prayer |
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| Summary: | Christian wedding ceremonies have, since the mid-1990s, displaced the Shinto rite and continue to remain Japans wedding ceremony of choice. In apparent contrast, the vast majority of Japanese individuals claim to be "nonreligious" or mushūkyō. Using the Christian wedding ceremonies of contemporary Japan as a context, this article explores the way in which claims of "non-religiousness" are used to both reject and affirm religious behaviors. Most typically, nonreligious attitudes reject religious positions perceived as abnormal, foreign, unusually intense, deviant, or unhealthy while simultaneously affirming the importance of religion to affective acts of belief. Furthermore, nonreligious individuals tend to rely heavily on religious professionals and to vicariously entrust specialized acts of prayer and ritual to religious authorities when desirable and appropriate. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Japanese journal of religious studies
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