Buddhist Social Analysis
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| The Four Noble Truths: A Buddhist Approach to understanding self and society |
| “Buddhist Responses to Modern Violence: Storytelling-Structural Analysis-Ethical Praxis” by Jonathan S. Watts – ReVision (Fall 2003, Vol. 26 No. 2) |
| Rethinking Karma: The Dharma of Social Justice (Ed. Jonathan S. Watts, 2014, 2nd edition) |
| “Cultural Violence” by Johan Galtung – Journal of Peace Research Vol. 27, No. 3 (Aug., 1990), pp. 291-305 |
| “Religions: Hard and Soft” by Johan Galtung – Cross Currents Vol. 47, No. 4 (New Rochelle; Winter 1997/1998), pp. 437-450 |
The Present Crisis in Japanese Buddhism
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| Reconstructing Priestly Identity and Roles in Contemporary Japan and the Development of Socially Engaged Buddhism (first 1/3 to the beginning of section II on page 8) |
| Young Japan priests try to breathe life into fading Buddhism – Malcolm Foster (AP, June 13, 2020) |
| Buddhism and Civil Society in Japan: The Search for Socially Engaged Buddhism in Japan by Jonathan Watts |
| A Brief Overview of Buddhist NGOs in Japan by Jonathan Watts (Japanese Journal of Religious Studies #700, 31/2: 417–428, 2004) |
| The Secularization of Japanese Buddhism: The Priest as Profane Practitioner of the Sacred by Rev. Yoshiharu Tomatsu |
| Stickers for Nails: The Ongoing Transformation of Roles, Rites, and Symbols in Japanese Funerals by Mark Rowe |
| Japanese Temple Buddhism: Worldliness in a Religion of Renunciation by Stephen Covell (University of Hawaii Press, 2006) – available in the library |
| Traditional Buddhism in Contemporary Japan [complete volume of essays] (Eds. Stephen Covell and Mark Rowe, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 2004, 31/2) |
| 『地球寂静 : ボランティアが未来を変えるNGOは世界を変える』 有馬実成著 (京都 : アカデミア出版会 2003.12) – 慶応図書館内 |
Contemporary Buddhism in Japan & Asia 