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- Title
The Development of the Temple-Parishioner System.
- Authors
Fumio, TAMAMURO
- Abstract
This essay examines the historical conditions for the establishment of the temple-parishioner or danka system. It is difficult to pinpoint the exact beginnings of this system. While there are medieval precedents, the broad development of the relationship between a temple and its parishioners as established through funerary rituals is primarily a phenomenon of the early modern period. I argue that there are roughly five distinct phases to the development of the temple-parishioner system: the proto-temple-parishioner system during the medieval period, the beginnings of the temple-parishioner system in the first half of the seventeenth century, the establishment of the temple-parishioner system in the second half of the seventeenth century, the establishment of the registration of religious affiliation, and the emergence of fully developed funerary Buddhism after 1700.
- Subjects
JAPAN; BUDDHIST temples; BUDDHIST funeral rites &; ceremonies; JAPANESE Buddhism; MEMBERSHIP
- Publication
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 2009, Vol 36, Issue 1, p11
- ISSN
0304-1042
- Publication type
Article