Jessica Starling
Biographic Data
| ID | 3890797 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica Starling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica |
| FAMILY NAME | Starling |
| SIGNATURE | STARLING J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lewis & Clark College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4697-6135 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction to the Special Issue on Buddhist Moral Emotions
This introduction to the special issue on “Buddhist Moral Emotions” explains the need for analyzing affect and emotion for a full understanding of Buddhist ethics. The introduction surveys major works in the turn to affect and advocates for ethnographic research on Buddhism as a lived religion in order to address the role of emotion in Buddhist ethics
Feeling Companionship: Hansen's Disease and Moral Authority in Japanese Shin Buddhism
This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork among Japanese Shin Buddhists who have an enduring commitment to volunteering with Hansen's disease patients in Japan and its former colonies. I trace the negotiation of emotions in this Jōdo Shinshū ethical context, identifying the Buddhist, Japanese, and global liberal vocabularies that ascribe moral value to various emotional responses to suffering and injustice. I argue that for these Buddhists, co…
Spiritual Ends: Religion and the Heart of Dying in Japan, By Timothy O. Benedict
Journal Article Spiritual Ends: Religion and the Heart of Dying in Japan, By Timothy O. Benedict Get access Spiritual Ends: Religion and the Heart of Dying in Japan By Timothy O. Benedict University of California Press, 2022. 208 pages. $34.95 (paperback). Jessica Starling Jessica Starling Lewis & Clark College [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion…
On Adam J. Lyons, Karma and Punishment: Prison Chaplaincy in Japan
Audience, Authorship, and Agency: Religious Educational Materials for Modern Buddhist Women’s Groups in Japan
The canonical Buddhist sutras were always delivered on the occasion of a particular gathered audience. I apply this basic premise of Buddhist doctrinal production to a body of religious literature produced for women in Japan from the 1890s to the 1910s to help resolve the scholarly conundrum of how to trace female religious agency in the absence of named female authorship. I identify women’s agency as being exercised through reading rather than w…
Agents of World Renewal: The Rise of Yonaoshi Gods in Japan by Takashi Miura
Reviewed by: Agents of World Renewal: The Rise of Yonaoshi Gods in Japan by Takashi Miura Jessica Starling (bio) Agents of World Renewal: The Rise of Yonaoshi Gods in Japan. By Takashi Miura. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2019. viii, 235 pages. $80.00, cloth; $28.00, paper. When I began reading Takashi Miura's book, Agents of World Renewal: The Rise of Yonaoshi Gods in Japan, the downtown streets of Portland, Oregon, where I live were fi…
Neither Nun nor Laywoman: The Good Wives and Wise Mothers of Jōdo Shinshū Temples
At the intersection of two important questions in the study of Japanese Buddhism today-namely, the matter of who may be called a nun, and the problem of how to appraise the widespread phenomenon of clerical marriage and familyrun temples in contemporary Japan-lies the story of a relatively unknown religious professional, the Shin temple wife, or bmori. This article seeks to analyze the legal and educational descriptions of bmori produced from the…
Women's Religious Affiliation in the Jōdo Shinshū
How can we talk about female religious professionals in a non-celibate Buddhist tradition with no formal ordination or convents for nuns? Is there any distinction between laywomen and nuns? In this survey essay, I summarize the body of research on women in the Jōdo Shinshū (True Pure Land Buddhism) to highlight the importance of women's roles as wives and mothers to their identities as religious professionals. On the other hand, laywomen in this …
Religious Studies: A Bibliographic Essay
The earliest scholarly studies of religion as a distinct subject occurred in and were shaped by the broader conditions of Western modernity—the philosophical legacies of the Enlightenment, the engagement of Western thinkers with religious otherness, and the sociopolitical contexts of the American and French revolutions. These intellectual, cultural, and political conditions challenged the established traditions of knowledge and social institution…
Religious Studies: A Bibliographic Essay
The earliest scholarly studies of religion as a distinct subject occurred in and were shaped by the broader conditions of Western modernity—the philosophical legacies of the Enlightenment, the engagement of Western thinkers with religious otherness, and the sociopolitical contexts of the American and French revolutions. These intellectual, cultural, and political conditions challenged the established traditions of knowledge and social institution…
Religious Studies: A Bibliographic Essay
The earliest scholarly studies of religion as a distinct subject occurred in and were shaped by the broader conditions of Western modernity—the philosophical legacies of the Enlightenment, the engagement of Western thinkers with religious otherness, and the sociopolitical contexts of the American and French revolutions. These intellectual, cultural, and political conditions challenged the established traditions of knowledge and social institution…
Neither Nun nor Laywoman: The Good Wives and Wise Mothers of Jōdo Shinshū Temples
At the intersection of two important questions in the study of Japanese Buddhism today-namely, the matter of who may be called a nun, and the problem of how to appraise the widespread phenomenon of clerical marriage and familyrun temples in contemporary Japan-lies the story of a relatively unknown religious professional, the Shin temple wife, or bmori. This article seeks to analyze the legal and educational descriptions of bmori produced from the…
Women's Religious Affiliation in the Jōdo Shinshū
How can we talk about female religious professionals in a non-celibate Buddhist tradition with no formal ordination or convents for nuns? Is there any distinction between laywomen and nuns? In this survey essay, I summarize the body of research on women in the Jōdo Shinshū (True Pure Land Buddhism) to highlight the importance of women's roles as wives and mothers to their identities as religious professionals. On the other hand, laywomen in this …
Agents of World Renewal: The Rise of Yonaoshi Gods in Japan by Takashi Miura
Reviewed by: Agents of World Renewal: The Rise of Yonaoshi Gods in Japan by Takashi Miura Jessica Starling (bio) Agents of World Renewal: The Rise of Yonaoshi Gods in Japan. By Takashi Miura. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2019. viii, 235 pages. $80.00, cloth; $28.00, paper. When I began reading Takashi Miura's book, Agents of World Renewal: The Rise of Yonaoshi Gods in Japan, the downtown streets of Portland, Oregon, where I live were fi…
On Adam J. Lyons, Karma and Punishment: Prison Chaplaincy in Japan
Audience, Authorship, and Agency: Religious Educational Materials for Modern Buddhist Women’s Groups in Japan
The canonical Buddhist sutras were always delivered on the occasion of a particular gathered audience. I apply this basic premise of Buddhist doctrinal production to a body of religious literature produced for women in Japan from the 1890s to the 1910s to help resolve the scholarly conundrum of how to trace female religious agency in the absence of named female authorship. I identify women’s agency as being exercised through reading rather than w…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Buddhist Moral Emotions
This introduction to the special issue on “Buddhist Moral Emotions” explains the need for analyzing affect and emotion for a full understanding of Buddhist ethics. The introduction surveys major works in the turn to affect and advocates for ethnographic research on Buddhism as a lived religion in order to address the role of emotion in Buddhist ethics
Feeling Companionship: Hansen's Disease and Moral Authority in Japanese Shin Buddhism
This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork among Japanese Shin Buddhists who have an enduring commitment to volunteering with Hansen's disease patients in Japan and its former colonies. I trace the negotiation of emotions in this Jōdo Shinshū ethical context, identifying the Buddhist, Japanese, and global liberal vocabularies that ascribe moral value to various emotional responses to suffering and injustice. I argue that for these Buddhists, co…
Spiritual Ends: Religion and the Heart of Dying in Japan, By Timothy O. Benedict
Journal Article Spiritual Ends: Religion and the Heart of Dying in Japan, By Timothy O. Benedict Get access Spiritual Ends: Religion and the Heart of Dying in Japan By Timothy O. Benedict University of California Press, 2022. 208 pages. $34.95 (paperback). Jessica Starling Jessica Starling Lewis & Clark College [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion…
Sociology (9 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Japanese History and Culture (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Theology (5 works) · Buddhism (4 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works)