Stephen G Covell
Biographic Data
| ID | 581231 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen G Covell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen G |
| FAMILY NAME | Covell |
| SIGNATURE | COVELL S G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Michigan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Remembering the Dead in Modern China
Religion and Sport in Japan
The Price of Naming the Dead Posthumous Precept Names and Critiques of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism
Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism
For more than a thousand years, Buddhism has dominated Japanese death rituals and concepts of the afterlife. The nine essays in this volume, ranging chronologically from the tenth century to the present, bring to light both continuity and change in death practices over time. They also explore the interrelated issues of how Buddhist death rites have addressed individual concerns about the afterlife while also filling social and institutional needs…
Japanese Temple Buddhism
As the basic social unit of Buddhism in Japan, temples are the sites where priests and laypersons attempt to live worldly lives according to teachings of renunciation. This is a certain recipe for failure, the story of which is bound to be fascinating. What is remarkable about institutional Buddhism in Japan, however, is not its much-criticized decline into meaningless customs and pecuniary interests, but its struggles to keep alive ancient relig…
Interfaith Dialogue and a Lotus Practitioner
Bringing Zen Home
Reviewed by: Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Spirit of Japanese Women’s Rituals by Paula Arai Stephen G. Covell (bio) Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Heart of Japanese Women’s Rituals. By Paula Arai. University of Hawai‘i Press, Honolulu, 2011. xii, 261 pages. $52.00. Bringing Zen Home, Paula Arai’s latest book, builds on her previous work on Buddhist nuns in Japan by turning her focus to female lay practitioners and, in particular, the ways in whi…
Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism
Reviewed by: Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism: Myōshinji, a Living Religion Stephen G. Covell (bio) Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism: Myōshinji, a Living Religion. By Jørn Borup. Brill, Leiden, 2008. xii, 314 pages. €119.00. Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism is a welcome addition to the nascent field of the study of contemporary Japanese Temple Buddhism. The book is comprehensive and presents in one volume a rich source for anyone wishing to learn about conte…
Learning to Persevere
This paper introduces the teachings of three contemporary practitioners of Tendai Buddhism. I argue that the study of Japanese Buddhism has focused on doctrine and the past to the detriment of our understanding of contempo rary teaching. Through an examination of the teachings of contemporary practitioners of austerities, I show that practice is drawn on as a source more than classical doctrine, that conservative values are prized, and that the t…
The Study of Japanese Buddhist Culture
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The Study of Japanese Buddhist Culture
Learning to Persevere
This paper introduces the teachings of three contemporary practitioners of Tendai Buddhism. I argue that the study of Japanese Buddhism has focused on doctrine and the past to the detriment of our understanding of contempo rary teaching. Through an examination of the teachings of contemporary practitioners of austerities, I show that practice is drawn on as a source more than classical doctrine, that conservative values are prized, and that the t…
Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism
Reviewed by: Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism: Myōshinji, a Living Religion Stephen G. Covell (bio) Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism: Myōshinji, a Living Religion. By Jørn Borup. Brill, Leiden, 2008. xii, 314 pages. €119.00. Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism is a welcome addition to the nascent field of the study of contemporary Japanese Temple Buddhism. The book is comprehensive and presents in one volume a rich source for anyone wishing to learn about conte…
Bringing Zen Home
Reviewed by: Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Spirit of Japanese Women’s Rituals by Paula Arai Stephen G. Covell (bio) Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Heart of Japanese Women’s Rituals. By Paula Arai. University of Hawai‘i Press, Honolulu, 2011. xii, 261 pages. $52.00. Bringing Zen Home, Paula Arai’s latest book, builds on her previous work on Buddhist nuns in Japan by turning her focus to female lay practitioners and, in particular, the ways in whi…
Interfaith Dialogue and a Lotus Practitioner
The Price of Naming the Dead Posthumous Precept Names and Critiques of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism
Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism
For more than a thousand years, Buddhism has dominated Japanese death rituals and concepts of the afterlife. The nine essays in this volume, ranging chronologically from the tenth century to the present, bring to light both continuity and change in death practices over time. They also explore the interrelated issues of how Buddhist death rites have addressed individual concerns about the afterlife while also filling social and institutional needs…
Japanese Temple Buddhism
As the basic social unit of Buddhism in Japan, temples are the sites where priests and laypersons attempt to live worldly lives according to teachings of renunciation. This is a certain recipe for failure, the story of which is bound to be fascinating. What is remarkable about institutional Buddhism in Japan, however, is not its much-criticized decline into meaningless customs and pecuniary interests, but its struggles to keep alive ancient relig…
Religion and Sport in Japan
Remembering the Dead in Modern China
History (7 works) · Japanese History and Culture (7 works) · Buddhism (6 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Theology (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works)