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The category of religion in contemporary Japan: Shūkyō & Temple Buddhism

The category of religion in contemporary Japan: Shūkyō & Temple Buddhism CONTEMPORARY JAPAN 271 Notes on contributor Jamie Coates is a Lecturer in East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield. He completed his PhD at the Australian National University and has lived and worked in China, Taiwan and Japan. He combines visual and digital ethnography with historical and textual analysis to explore the relationship between technology, mobility and imagination in urban Northeast Asia. Building on his research on Chinese migration to Japan, he is currently investigating how media and migration change local imaginaries in the Sino-Japanese context. Jamie Coates j.coates@sheffield.ac.uk http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7905-9504 © 2018 Jamie Coates https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2018.1553753 by Mitsutoshi Horii, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, xii + 284 pp., ISBN (eBook) 9783319735702, ISBN (hardcover) 9783319735696, https://www.palgrave.com/br/ book/9783319735696 In a divisive work published in 2000, Timothy Fitzgerald argued against the use of ‘religion’ as an analytical category in scholarly research. Informed by his own experiences of working with Indian and Japanese traditions, Fitzgerald presented the case for why ‘religion’ was an arbitrary and, in his view, ‘meaningless’ category when used as an analytical tool. Echoing the opinions of earlier scholars, including Jonathan Z. Smith’s suggestion that ‘[religion] is created for the scholar’s analytic purposes by his imaginative acts of comparison and generalization’ (Smith, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Contemporary Japan Taylor & Francis

The category of religion in contemporary Japan: Shūkyō & Temple Buddhism

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Contemporary Japan , Volume 31 (2): 5 – Jul 3, 2019
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The category of religion in contemporary Japan: Shūkyō & Temple Buddhism

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CONTEMPORARY JAPAN 271 Notes on contributor Jamie Coates is a Lecturer in East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield. He completed his PhD at the Australian National University and has lived and worked in China, Taiwan and Japan. He combines visual and digital ethnography with historical and textual analysis to explore the relationship between technology, mobility and imagination in urban Northeast Asia. Building on his research on Chinese migration to Japan, he is currently...
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CONTEMPORARY JAPAN 271 Notes on contributor Jamie Coates is a Lecturer in East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield. He completed his PhD at the Australian National University and has lived and worked in China, Taiwan and Japan. He combines visual and digital ethnography with historical and textual analysis to explore the relationship between technology, mobility and imagination in urban Northeast Asia. Building on his research on Chinese migration to Japan, he is currently investigating how media and migration change local imaginaries in the Sino-Japanese context. Jamie Coates j.coates@sheffield.ac.uk http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7905-9504 © 2018 Jamie Coates https://doi.org/10.1080/18692729.2018.1553753 by Mitsutoshi Horii, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, xii + 284 pp., ISBN (eBook) 9783319735702, ISBN (hardcover) 9783319735696, https://www.palgrave.com/br/ book/9783319735696 In a divisive work published in 2000, Timothy Fitzgerald argued against the use of ‘religion’ as an analytical category in scholarly research. Informed by his own experiences of working with Indian and Japanese traditions, Fitzgerald presented the case for why ‘religion’ was an arbitrary and, in his view, ‘meaningless’ category when used as an analytical tool. Echoing the opinions of earlier scholars, including Jonathan Z. Smith’s suggestion that ‘[religion] is created for the scholar’s analytic purposes by his imaginative acts of comparison and generalization’ (Smith,

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Contemporary Japan – Taylor & Francis

Published: Jul 3, 2019

References

  • Jinja Honchō and the politics of constitutional reform in Japan
  • Ideology, academic inventions and mystical anthropology: Responding to Fitzgerald’s errors and misguided polemics