Mark Rowe
Biographic Data
| ID | 3891005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Rowe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Rowe |
| SIGNATURE | ROWE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Review
Estimates of submicron particulate matter (PM1) concentrations for 1998–2022 across the contiguous USA
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health
Grave Changes
Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia
This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers will encounter artists, psychologists, social workers, part-time priests, healers, and librarians as well as charlatans, hucksters, profiteers, and ra…
Charting Known Territory
Contemporary Buddhism and Death
Funerary Buddhism emerges out of Buddhism’s encounter with modernization, both in Asia and the West from the nineteenth century. It refers to a broad spectrum of textual, material, ritual, sociocultural, and institutional forms connected to the immediate and ongoing care of the dead. It implicates everything from Buddhist institutions to local temples, local civil codes to international law, and sectarian intellectuals to popular culture. A cruci…
Research Centers for Business Ethics
Research centers dedicated to the study of what is good or right for individuals and groups of individuals engaged in business activity. Generally not‐for‐profit, business ethics centers are most effective when they combine theoretical inquiry and practical application. Most centers have multiple functions including research, teaching, the preparation of teaching materials, organizing conferences and seminars and the provision of speakers and sch…
The Buddhist Dead
In its teachings, practices, and institutions, Buddhism in its varied Asian forms has been—and continues to be—centrally concerned with death and the dead. Yet surprisingly "death in Buddhism" has received little sustained scholarly attention. The Buddhist Dead offers the first comparative investigation of this topic across the major Buddhist cultures of India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Tibet, and Burma. Its individual essays, representing a range…
Death, Burial, and the Study of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism
This article approaches mortuary practices as a window into the current state of Japanese Buddhism. Despite widespread scholarly awareness of the intimate connection between Buddhism and death throughout much of Japanese history, to date little work has been done to explore the profound significance of changing burial practices on all of the major sects today. Making the argument that 'funerary Buddhism' (sōshiki Bukkyō) is important to both thin…
Round-Table Discussion
In order to introduce issues surrounding the contempo rary training of Buddhist priests we invited professors from Taisho, Rissho, and Komazawa Universities to take part in a round-table discussion (zadankai 座談会) of the current state of sectarian universities.For many of our readers this will be a famil iar format.A small group of experts are given topics and questions in advance, then brought together for a moderated discussion.While tms type of…
Where the Action Is
This article considers reactions at various levels of the Soto sect to the prob lems of funerary Buddhism. There is a widening gap, not only between the necessities of mortuary practice at local temples (both rural and urban) and the doctrine of no-self ostensibly embodied in the foundational texts of Dogen and Keizan, but also within the very organizational structures of the Soto sect itself. From its official publications and regional conferenc…
Grave Changes
This article examines the formation and growth of the Grave-Free Promotion Society (GFPS), a civic group formed in 1990 to promote the scattering of human ashes in Japan. Changing family structures and a critical lack of sufficient burial space have led to a grave revolution since the end of the 1980s. Scattering sits at the intersection of legal battles over the ambiguous status of cremated remains, historical debates over what constitutes tradi…
Stickers for Nails
This article traces the effects of modern commercial ritual spaces and new crematoriums on the meaning and structure of contemporary Japanese funerals. The widening physical separation between the mourning family and the corpse throughout the death process parallels an increase in the ritual authority of the professional funeral industry, which has led to several notable variations in funeral styles. Of particular note is a changing attitude towa…
The Buddhist Dead
In its teachings, practices, and institutions, Buddhism in its varied Asian forms has been—and continues to be—centrally concerned with death and the dead. Yet surprisingly "death in Buddhism" has received little sustained scholarly attention. The Buddhist Dead offers the first comparative investigation of this topic across the major Buddhist cultures of India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Tibet, and Burma. Its individual essays, representing a range…
Stickers for Nails
This article traces the effects of modern commercial ritual spaces and new crematoriums on the meaning and structure of contemporary Japanese funerals. The widening physical separation between the mourning family and the corpse throughout the death process parallels an increase in the ritual authority of the professional funeral industry, which has led to several notable variations in funeral styles. Of particular note is a changing attitude towa…
Grave Changes
This article examines the formation and growth of the Grave-Free Promotion Society (GFPS), a civic group formed in 1990 to promote the scattering of human ashes in Japan. Changing family structures and a critical lack of sufficient burial space have led to a grave revolution since the end of the 1980s. Scattering sits at the intersection of legal battles over the ambiguous status of cremated remains, historical debates over what constitutes tradi…
Round-Table Discussion
In order to introduce issues surrounding the contempo rary training of Buddhist priests we invited professors from Taisho, Rissho, and Komazawa Universities to take part in a round-table discussion (zadankai 座談会) of the current state of sectarian universities.For many of our readers this will be a famil iar format.A small group of experts are given topics and questions in advance, then brought together for a moderated discussion.While tms type of…
Where the Action Is
This article considers reactions at various levels of the Soto sect to the prob lems of funerary Buddhism. There is a widening gap, not only between the necessities of mortuary practice at local temples (both rural and urban) and the doctrine of no-self ostensibly embodied in the foundational texts of Dogen and Keizan, but also within the very organizational structures of the Soto sect itself. From its official publications and regional conferenc…
Death, Burial, and the Study of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism
This article approaches mortuary practices as a window into the current state of Japanese Buddhism. Despite widespread scholarly awareness of the intimate connection between Buddhism and death throughout much of Japanese history, to date little work has been done to explore the profound significance of changing burial practices on all of the major sects today. Making the argument that 'funerary Buddhism' (sōshiki Bukkyō) is important to both thin…
The Buddhist Dead
In its teachings, practices, and institutions, Buddhism in its varied Asian forms has been—and continues to be—centrally concerned with death and the dead. Yet surprisingly "death in Buddhism" has received little sustained scholarly attention. The Buddhist Dead offers the first comparative investigation of this topic across the major Buddhist cultures of India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Tibet, and Burma. Its individual essays, representing a range…
Research Centers for Business Ethics
Research centers dedicated to the study of what is good or right for individuals and groups of individuals engaged in business activity. Generally not‐for‐profit, business ethics centers are most effective when they combine theoretical inquiry and practical application. Most centers have multiple functions including research, teaching, the preparation of teaching materials, organizing conferences and seminars and the provision of speakers and sch…
Contemporary Buddhism and Death
Funerary Buddhism emerges out of Buddhism’s encounter with modernization, both in Asia and the West from the nineteenth century. It refers to a broad spectrum of textual, material, ritual, sociocultural, and institutional forms connected to the immediate and ongoing care of the dead. It implicates everything from Buddhist institutions to local temples, local civil codes to international law, and sectarian intellectuals to popular culture. A cruci…
Grave Changes
Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia
This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers will encounter artists, psychologists, social workers, part-time priests, healers, and librarians as well as charlatans, hucksters, profiteers, and ra…
Charting Known Territory
Estimates of submicron particulate matter (PM1) concentrations for 1998–2022 across the contiguous USA
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health
Review
History (8 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Buddhism (6 works) · Japanese History and Culture (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (4 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works)