Description
These volumes are the culmination of sixteen years of research and engagement in the growing Socially Engaged Buddhist movement in Japan by the International Buddhist Exchange Center (IBEC) @ Kodosan in Yokohama, Japan. They follow its two publications dedicated to the Northeast Japan
tsunami and nuclear disaster in This Precious Life: Buddhist Tsunami Relief and Anti-Nuclear Activism in Post 3/11 Japan (2012) & Lotus in the Nuclear Sea: Fukushima and the Promise of Buddhism in the Nuclear Age (2013).
Volume II presents the new Socially Engaged Buddhist activities of 21st century Japan, a dynamic movement arising out of the social crisis of Japan's "disconnected society" (mu-en shakai). It focuses on five sub-movements in end-of-life care, suicide prevention, disaster relief and Buddhist chaplaincy, poverty and homelessness, and anti-nuclear activism and holistic development. An Afterword ponders the possibility of a new movement for gender justice.
Volume I provides an essential presentation of historical themes and a comprehensive survey of Socially Engaged Buddhism in the modern era.
Author: Jonathan S. Watts
Publisher: Sumeru Press Inc.
Published: 10/28/2023
Pages: 364
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d
ISBN13: 9781896559926
ISBN10: 1896559921
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Buddhism | General (see also Philosophy | Buddhist)
- Political Science | Public Policy | Social Services & Welfare
- Social Science | Social Work
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