Spirituality in contemporary Japan: alternativity and precarity
"This monograph critically analyses the creation of spirituality as both discourse and practice in Japan, and its effects. It shows how the value of spirituality has been sustained by scholars who have wished for a more civic role for religion; by the publishing industry whose exponential growt...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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London [England]
Bloomsbury Academic
2022
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
| Edition: | First edition |
| Series/Journal: | Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
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| Further subjects: | B
Japan
Religion
B Spirituality (Japan) |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9781350262652 |
| Summary: | "This monograph critically analyses the creation of spirituality as both discourse and practice in Japan, and its effects. It shows how the value of spirituality has been sustained by scholars who have wished for a more civic role for religion; by the publishing industry whose exponential growth in the 1980s fashioned a public later identified as the representatives of this "new spirituality culture"; by "spiritual therapists" who have sought to eke out a livelihood in an increasingly professionalized and regulated therapeutic field; and by the cruel optimism of an increasingly precarious workforce placing its hopes in the imagined alternative that the supirichuaru represents."-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references |
| ISBN: | 1350262641 |
| Access: | Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5040/9781350262645 |