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

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

Jessica Starling with Mark Michael Rowe

200 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction gender religion informative reflective medium-paced
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In Guardians of the Buddha’s Home, Jessica Starling draws on nearly three years of ethnographic research to provide a comprehensive view of Jōdo Shinshū (True Pure Land) temple life with temple wives (known as bōmori, or temple guardians) at its c...

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