Japanese Buddhism in Europe

Jørn Borup, Elisabetta Porcu (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

302 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
9789004730755 (ISBN)

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Zen, Shin, and Soka Gakkai. Japanese Buddhism has become part of the religious landscape in Europe with the presence of temples and centres, thinkers, and practitioners. Since the opening of the country during the Meiji Restoration (1868), scholars and students went to European universities, followed by migrants and missionaries rebuilding new forms of Buddhism. For many decades, poets, artists, and thinkers have been fascinated by Zen, and its culture and religion have been incorporated into European forms. Other schools of Japanese Buddhism have gained less popularity but nonetheless played a relevant role in the religious exchange between Japan and Europe. This volume explores tendencies and perspectives of Japanese Buddhist denominations in various European countries through topics ranging from politics to poetry, to issues related to ethnic religion, and Christian interpretations of Buddhism.

Jørn Borup, Ph.D. (2002), Aarhus University, is Associate Professor in the study of religion at that university. He has published monographs and articles, and edited anthologies related to Buddhism, Japanese religion and the study of religion, including Decolonising the Study of Religion. Who Owns Buddhism? (2023). Elisabetta Porcu, Ph.D. (2006), is Associate Professor and Head of the Department for the Study of Religions at the University of Cape Town. She is the author of Pure Land Buddhism in Modern Japanese Culture (Brill, 2008) and the founding editor of the Journal of Religion in Japan (Brill).

Preface

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction

Japanese Buddhism in Europe

Jørn Borup

2 D.T. Suzuki at the World Congress of Faiths in 1936

An Analysis of His Presentation at the Interfaith Conference

Tomoe Moriya 友江守屋

3 Hans Haas, the Songs of Buddha, and Their Sounds of Truth

A German Missionary’s Interpretation of Pure Land Buddhism

Esben Petersen

4 The History and Current State of Japanese Zen Buddhism in Europe

Shūhei Fujii 修平藤井

5 Japanese Buddhism in Austria

Lukas Pokorny

6 Between Tradition and Revolution

Political Appropriations of Japanese Buddhism in Italy

Paride Stortini

7 A “Nihilist Philosophy?”

Christian Orthodox Heretical Discourse and Japanese Buddhism in Greece

Ioannis Gaitanidis

8 Jōdo Shinshū in the UK

Impermanence, Precarity, and Change

Louella Matsunaga

9 Japanese Buddhism and Ireland

Laurence Cox and John Ó Laoidh

10 Japanese Buddhism in Germany

Laura Brandt and Inken Prohl

11 ekō-ji

Numata Ehan’s Ideas and Their Realization in a Japanese Buddhist Temple in Germany

Marc Nottelmann-Feil

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	31.07.2025
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	515 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-13	9789004730755 / 9789004730755
Zustand	Neuware