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Japanese Culture
Religious Culture in Japanese History
This course is a critical introduction to religious culture in Japanese history from the 8th century to the present. Religions make up a vital part of Japanese culture, as you may have attended Shinto festivals (matsuri) or weddings, or may have visited Buddhist and Confucian rituals and temples. In this course, we look into how in history religions became intertwined with Japanese cultural and political life. We will read and discuss how Japanese political and social life shaped the changes of religious doctrines and practices on the one hand and how religious themes and motifs informed historical experience in Japan on the other. Our goal is to appreciate and understand the fact that what we talk about as Japanese culture and religion are not unchanging ideas, doctrines, or institutions but have always been embedded in concrete human struggles both for political and social power and for making sense of human life. As such when you complete this course, you will have gained a deeper understanding of the historical process that gave rise to what is usually presented as the unique and essential Japanese culture.
The course consists of a series of topics from Japanese history. For each class, we will read one or a few essays prior to class and I will then lecture on a topic, to be followed by class discussion on it. No prior knowledge of Japanese language or religions is necessary but you are required to be involved in the course, that is, you will do the reading, participate in class discussion, and conduct research for your final paper.
The course consists of a series of topics from Japanese history. For each class, we will read one or a few essays prior to class and I will then lecture on a topic, to be followed by class discussion on it. No prior knowledge of Japanese language or religions is necessary but you are required to be involved in the course, that is, you will do the reading, participate in class discussion, and conduct research for your final paper.
時間割／共通科目コード
コース名
教員
学期
時限
04176308
FLE-XX4F07L3
Japanese Culture
白波瀬 佐和子
金曜4限
マイリストに追加
マイリストから削除
講義使用言語
英語
単位
2
実務経験のある教員による授業科目
NO
他学部履修
可
開講所属
文学部
授業計画
4/7, Introduction (video: Suwa Shrine Onbashira ritual; Shinto wedding ceremony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeJQMvydpzQ)
4/14: Gods at war (Kojiki, Nihon shoki)
4/21, Two Old and Powerful Shrines (William Coaldrake. “The Grand Shrines of Izumo and Ise,” Architecture and Authority in Japan (pp.21-51)
4/28: The Early State of Japan and Buddhism
Allan G. Grapard. “The Economics of Ritual Power.” Shinto in History. 68-94.
Tanabe, George. “The Founding of Mount Koya and Kukai’s eternal meditation,” in Religions of Japan in Practice (pp.354-359, 5p)
5/12, Power, life and afterlife:
William Coaldrake. “Heian Palaces and Kamakura Temples” Architecture and Authority in Japan (pp.81-103)
Dobbins, James C. “Genshin’s (942-1017) Deathbed Nembutsu Ritual in Pure Land Buddhism” in Tanabe, George, jr. ed. Religions of Japan in Practice (Princeton University Press, 1999) (pp. 166-75, 9p)
5/19, Warriors and Buddhism in medieval Japan
Solomon, Michael. “The Dilemma of Religious Power: Honganji and Hosokawa Masamoto” in Monumenta Nipponica, Vol.33, No.1. (Spring 1978) (pp. 51-65, 14p).
Dobbins, James C. “Shinran’s (1173-1262) Faith as Immediate Fulfillment in Pure Land Buddhism,” in Tanabe, George, jr. ed. Religions of Japan in Practice (pp. 280-288, 9p)
Hirota, Dennis. “Plain Words on the Pure Land Way,” in Tanabe, George, jr. ed. Religions of Japan in Practice (pp. 269-279, 10p)
5/30, Christianity in Japan
George Elison, “Introduction.” 1-10. Suzuki Shosan. “Ha Kirishitan,” Deus Destroyed. 375-392.
6/9, Religious Culture in early Modern Japan
“Religion and Festivals,” Edo: Art in Japan 1615-1868. 23-258.
6/16/ The Death of A Shogun
“The death of a shogun: deification in early modern Japan,” Shinto in History. 144-166.
6/23, The Meiji transformation
Sarah Thal. “Redefining the Gods” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 2002/29, 379-404.
6/30, Buddhism and Modernity.
Jaffe, Richard. Neither Monk Nor Layman, Clerical Marriage in Modern Japanese Buddhism (Princeton, 2001) (Contents, Chapter 1 & 10, 23p)
7/7, Political or Religious?
“The Daijosai: A ‘Shinto’ Rite of Imperial Accession,” A New History of Shinto. 168-198.
7/14 presentation
授業の方法
Lecture and discussion
成績評価方法
Attendance and discussion participation (20%)
Two short review essays (20%)
Presentation (15%)
Final paper (45%)
教科書
none
参考書
none
履修上の注意
none
