James H Foard
Biographic Data
| ID | 1244756 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James H Foard |
| GIVEN NAMES | James H |
| FAMILY NAME | Foard |
| SIGNATURE | FOARD J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Pure Land Tradition
Visions of Power
Imagining Nuclear Weapons
Journal Article Imagining Nuclear Weapons: Hiroshima, Armageddon, and the Annihilation of the Students of Ichijo School Get access James H. Foard James H. Foard James H Foard is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-3104 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXV, Issue 1, Spring 1997, Pages 1–18, https://doi.org/1…
Myoe the Dreamkeeper
In the Kamakura period, Myoe Shonin (1173-1232) was a leader of Nara Buddhists who sought to revitalize traditional Buddhism in Japan. In his teaching, Myoe specially emphasized the value of the visions that could be achieved through meditation; and in his practice, he kept and occasionally illustrated a diary of his own visions and significant night dreams. The autograph copy of this remarkable document still exists, although some pages have bee…
Three. Prefiguration and Narrative in Medieval Hagiography
The Boundaries of Compassion
The author demonstrates how a Buddhist pilgrimage tradition affected symbolic and social changes in early modern Japan. After exploring the history of the Saikoku pilgrimage and its practice in the Tokugawa period, he suggests that Victor Turner's theories of "communitas" and "liminality," while adequately explaining the "social modality" of the pilgrimage, do not account for the religious and cultural paradigms encountered by the pilgrim. To und…
In search of a lost reformation
a special place. Every scholar who has written on the sub ject has perceived a fundamental change in the Buddhism of the period as it moved beyond the aristocracy into the lives of peasants, traders, craftsmen, and warriors in con junction with the emergence of feudal political, economic, and social structures. Exactly what this change was, how ever, has yet to be thoroughly or convincingly defined. On the surface, such a definition would seem si…
Seiganji
The Boundaries of Compassion
The author demonstrates how a Buddhist pilgrimage tradition affected symbolic and social changes in early modern Japan. After exploring the history of the Saikoku pilgrimage and its practice in the Tokugawa period, he suggests that Victor Turner's theories of "communitas" and "liminality," while adequately explaining the "social modality" of the pilgrimage, do not account for the religious and cultural paradigms encountered by the pilgrim. To und…
Seiganji
The Pure Land Tradition
In search of a lost reformation
a special place. Every scholar who has written on the sub ject has perceived a fundamental change in the Buddhism of the period as it moved beyond the aristocracy into the lives of peasants, traders, craftsmen, and warriors in con junction with the emergence of feudal political, economic, and social structures. Exactly what this change was, how ever, has yet to be thoroughly or convincingly defined. On the surface, such a definition would seem si…
Seiganji
The Boundaries of Compassion
The author demonstrates how a Buddhist pilgrimage tradition affected symbolic and social changes in early modern Japan. After exploring the history of the Saikoku pilgrimage and its practice in the Tokugawa period, he suggests that Victor Turner's theories of "communitas" and "liminality," while adequately explaining the "social modality" of the pilgrimage, do not account for the religious and cultural paradigms encountered by the pilgrim. To und…
Three. Prefiguration and Narrative in Medieval Hagiography
Myoe the Dreamkeeper
In the Kamakura period, Myoe Shonin (1173-1232) was a leader of Nara Buddhists who sought to revitalize traditional Buddhism in Japan. In his teaching, Myoe specially emphasized the value of the visions that could be achieved through meditation; and in his practice, he kept and occasionally illustrated a diary of his own visions and significant night dreams. The autograph copy of this remarkable document still exists, although some pages have bee…
Imagining Nuclear Weapons
Journal Article Imagining Nuclear Weapons: Hiroshima, Armageddon, and the Annihilation of the Students of Ichijo School Get access James H. Foard James H. Foard James H Foard is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-3104 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXV, Issue 1, Spring 1997, Pages 1–18, https://doi.org/1…
The Pure Land Tradition
Visions of Power
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