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NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
LA116771
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انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Religion, Medicine and the Notion of Charity in Early Jesuit Missionary Pursuits in Buddhist Japan
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[Article]
First Statement of Responsibility
Katja Triplett
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Leiden
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Brill
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Searching for conceptual distinctions between religion and medicine is a promising avenue from which to reconstruct trajectories towards the appropriation of hegemonic Western concepts of secularism in Japan, such as the Meiji-period separation of religious and medical practice. Buddhism and medicine had already established a complex relationship for centuries when the Jesuits arrived in Japan. Mahāyāna Buddhist tenets, such as the practice of medicine as a "field of merit" (fukuden 福田), served lay Buddhists as well as monastics as a means to increase social capital through charitable projects. The article seeks to explore whether the Jesuits' distinction between religion and medicine, and by extension the notion of charity, had any significant impact on Japanese religious and medical culture. In making a distinction between religion and medicine, the Jesuits drew a particular boundary in a way that could be interpreted as a precursor of secularity. The analysis of late medieval and early modern sources in European languages and in Japanese supports the conclusion that the form of secularity emerging in the Edo period resulted from an increase in the popularization of Neo-Confucian concepts and not the influx of the Catholic notion of caritas in the Iberian phase. Searching for conceptual distinctions between religion and medicine is a promising avenue from which to reconstruct trajectories towards the appropriation of hegemonic Western concepts of secularism in Japan, such as the Meiji-period separation of religious and medical practice. Buddhism and medicine had already established a complex relationship for centuries when the Jesuits arrived in Japan. Mahāyāna Buddhist tenets, such as the practice of medicine as a "field of merit" (fukuden 福田), served lay Buddhists as well as monastics as a means to increase social capital through charitable projects. The article seeks to explore whether the Jesuits' distinction between religion and medicine, and by extension the notion of charity, had any significant impact on Japanese religious and medical culture. In making a distinction between religion and medicine, the Jesuits drew a particular boundary in a way that could be interpreted as a precursor of secularity. The analysis of late medieval and early modern sources in European languages and in Japanese supports the conclusion that the form of secularity emerging in the Edo period resulted from an increase in the popularization of Neo-Confucian concepts and not the influx of the Catholic notion of caritas in the Iberian phase.
SET
Date of Publication
2019
Physical description
46-75
Title
Journal of Religion in Japan
Volume Number
8/1-3
International Standard Serial Number
2211-8349
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
charity
Subject Term
cultural translation
Subject Term
Jesuits
Subject Term
medicine
Subject Term
merit
Subject Term
secularity
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Katja Triplett
LOCATION AND CALL NUMBER
Call Number
10.1163/22118349-00801010
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Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب p
[Article]
275578
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