RT Book
T1 Karma and punishment: prison chaplaincy in Japan
T2 Harvard East Asian monographs
JF Harvard East Asian monographs
A1 Lyons, Adam
LA English
PP Cambridge (Massachusetts) London
PB Harvard University Asia Center
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1752285026
AB "This groundbreaking study of prison religion in East Asia introduces a form of chaplaincy rooted in the Buddhist concept of doctrinal admonition rather than Euro-American notions of spiritual care. Based on archival research, fieldwork inside prisons, and interviews with chaplains, it reveals another dimension of Buddhist modernism that developed as Japan's religious organizations carved out a niche as defenders of society by fighting crime. The case of prison chaplaincy shows that despite constitutional commitments to freedom of religion and separation of religion from state, statism remains an enduring feature of mainstream Japanese religious life in the contemporary era"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HV8865
SN 9780674260153
K1 Dharma (Buddhism) : Interpretation and construction
K1 Religious work with prisoners : Japan
K1 Justice : Religious aspects : Buddhism
K1 Prison chaplains : Buddhism
K1 Karma
K1 Capital Punishment : Japan
K1 Dharma (Buddhism)
K1 Religious work with prisoners : Buddhism
K1 Japan : Gefängnisseelsorge : Buddhismus : Karma : Gerechtigkeit