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Koda, Tara Keiko.

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Meiji "Buddhism" in America: A study of the effect of shinbutsu bunri on Jodo Shinshu and its development in Hawaii and California.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Meiji "Buddhism" in America: A study of the effect of shinbutsu bunri on Jodo Shinshu and its development in Hawaii and California./
Author:	Koda, Tara Keiko.
Description:	401 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Allan G. Grapard.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-10A.
Subject:	American Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3285832
ISBN:	9780549281665

Meiji "Buddhism" in America: A study of the effect of shinbutsu bunri on Jodo Shinshu and its development in Hawaii and California.
Koda, Tara Keiko.

Meiji "Buddhism" in America: A study of the effect of shinbutsu bunri on Jodo Shinshu and its development in Hawaii and California. - 401 p.

Adviser: Allan G. Grapard.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007.

In the late-1800s, Japanese started emigrating from various areas of Southern and Western Japan. They took their knowledge of farming and fishing as well as their different rituals and belief systems along with them. However, these belief systems, which had been somewhat stable for centuries, were also undergoing radical upheavals during this time. Between 1868 and 1875, the Japanese government created policies that forcibly "separated" Buddhist and Shinto cults, creating a "modern" Buddhist "tradition" and a separate "Shinto," each so different than what they had been prior to 1868 that one must question their very names.

ISBN: 9780549281665Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

Meiji "Buddhism" in America: A study of the effect of shinbutsu bunri on Jodo Shinshu and its development in Hawaii and California.
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520 $a In the late-1800s, Japanese started emigrating from various areas of Southern and Western Japan. They took their knowledge of farming and fishing as well as their different rituals and belief systems along with them. However, these belief systems, which had been somewhat stable for centuries, were also undergoing radical upheavals during this time. Between 1868 and 1875, the Japanese government created policies that forcibly "separated" Buddhist and Shinto cults, creating a "modern" Buddhist "tradition" and a separate "Shinto," each so different than what they had been prior to 1868 that one must question their very names.
520 $a Buddhism was introduced to America along with the immigrants but it was a different Buddhism, one that had been transformed by the violence it had seen by these separation policies. Even in areas that survived relatively untouched, the people were faced with new rituals and practices, adopting new ones and abandoning old ones. As the Japanese traveled to Hawaii and California, they were faced with new experiences, both positive and negative. Buddhism enabled them to use a familiar space (the Buddhist temple) in which to adapt to their new home. Although some chose to convert to Christianity, for many Issei (first-generation immigrants), Buddhism was one of the tools by which they could find their way more securely into their new environment.
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