Guardians of the Buddha's Home: Domestic Religion in Contemporary Jōdo Shinshū

by Starling

Book Overview

In Guardians of the Buddha's Home , Jessica Starling draws on nearly three years of ethnographic research to provide a comprehensive view of Jodo Shinshu (True Pure Land) temple life with temple wives (known as bomori, or temple guardians) at its center. Throughout, she focuses on "domestic religion," a mode of doing religion centering on more informal religious expression that has received scant attention in the scholarly literature. The Buddhist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824888391
• ISBN13: 9780824888398
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"