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...

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Published in:Journal of Religion in Japan
Authors: Cox, Laurence 1969- (Author) ; Laoidh, John Ó (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2022
In: Journal of Religion in Japan
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Ireland / Japan / Buddhism / Reception / Congregation / Geschichte Anfänge-2022
IxTheo 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.
ISSN:2211-8349
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of Religion in Japan
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/22118349-01002008