Secularities in Japan

Ugo Dessì, Ph.D. (2006), is OeNB Professorial Fellow at the University of Vienna. He has published widely on Japanese Buddhism and Japanese religions under globalization, including The Global Repositioning of Japanese Religions: An Integrated Approach (Routledge, 2017).Christoph Kleine, Ph.D. (1995), is Professor for the History of Religions at Leipzig University. He has published widely on Buddhism and the religious history of Japan, including Der Buddhismus in Japan: Geschichte, Lehre Praxis (Mohr Siebeck, 2011).Contributors are: Ugo Dessì, Satoko Fujiwara, Christoph Kleine, Kawata Koh, Hans Martin Krämer, Aike P. Rots, Katja Triplett.

• Introduction: Secularities in JapanUgo Dessì and Christoph KleineFormations of Secularity in Ancient Japan? On Cultural Encounters, Critical Junctures, and Path-Dependent ProcessesChristoph KleineReligion, Medicine and the Notion of Charity in Early Jesuit Missionary Pursuits in Buddhist JapanKatja TriplettSecularization and the Jōruri Plays: The Decline of Religious Belief and the Search for Secular Salvation in Early Modern JapanKawata Koh 川田耕“Even Three-Year-Old Children Know That the Source of Enlightenment is not Religion but Science”: Modern Japanese Buddhism between ‘Religion’ and ‘Science,’ 1860s–1910sHans Martin KrämerPracticing Belonging? Non-religiousness in Twenty-First Century JapanFujiwara SatokoWorld Heritage, Secularisation, and the New “Public Sacred” in East AsiaAike P. Rots