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Contents Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Timeline Introduction: Snapshots of Buddhism in Today's Japan 1. Temple Buddhism Today: Scholarly and Popular Images of Corruption 2. Laity and the Temple: Past and Present 3. Trying to Have it Both Ways: Is There a Place for Laity in a World-Renouncer Organization? 4. The Contemporary Priesthood: Images of Identity Crisis 5. New Priests for New Times? 6. Coming to Terms: Temple Wives and World-Renouncers 7. Money and the Temple: Law, Taxes and the Image of Buddhism 8. The Price of Naming the Dead: Funerals, Posthumous Precept Names and Changing Views of the Afterlife Epilogue: The World of Householding World-Renouncers Notes Bibliography Index
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Buddhism -- Japan -- 1945-.
Priests, Buddhist -- Japan -- Office.