Brian Bocking
Biographic Data
| ID | 582265 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Bocking |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Bocking |
| SIGNATURE | BOCKING B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bath Spa University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Religious Education in a Global-Local World
A Buddhist Crossroads
The period from the later nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth \ncenturies—roughly between the Indian Revolt of 1857 and the withdrawal of most \nEuropean powers from direct rule in Asia—was one of immense change across \nSoutheast Asia and the Buddhist world. This century saw the emergence of the \nelements that we now take to constitute modern Buddhism, or the multiple \nmodern Buddhisms: the rise of the laity as practitioners and orga…
Flagging Up Buddhism
Charles James William Pfoundes (1840–1907), a young emigrant from Southeast Ireland, spent most of his adult life in Japan, received a Japanese name ‘Omoie Tetzunostzuke’, first embraced and then turned against Theosophy and, from 1893, was ordained in several Japanese Buddhist traditions. Lacking independent means but educated, intellectually curious, entrepreneurial, fluent in Japanese and with a keen interest in Asian culture, Pfoundes subsist…
A Man of Work and Few Words’? Dhammaloka Beyond Burma
While Dhammaloka's very public career as ‘the Irish Pongyi’ (monk) c.1900–1911 was played out mainly in Burma, he also travelled extensively in other parts of Asia. There is independent evidence of his visit to Tokyo in the autumn of 1902, from which he emerged a ‘Lord Abbot’, and some information on his several months in Bangkok in 1903. Dhammaloka's activities in Singapore, where in 1903–1904 he successfully established a Buddhist Mission and f…
Beachcombing, Going Native and Freethinking
The article provides an introduction to the special issue of Contemporary Buddhism entitled ‘U Dhammaloka, “The Irish Buddhist”: Rewriting the History of Early Western Buddhist Monastics’. Traditional accounts of pioneer Western Buddhist monastics begin with the 1899 ordination of H. Gordon Douglas (Aśoka), and highlight gentleman scholars writing for a European audience. They consign to obscurity a pre-existing world of Western Buddhist monastic…
Death and religion in a changing world
Death and religion in a changing world. Edited by KATHLEEN GARCES-FOLEY, M. E. Sharpe Inc, New York, 2006, xiv + 322pp., US$27.95, £21.95, paperback (ISBN 0765612224), US$72.95, £54.95, hardback (I
The Oracles of the Three Shrines
This is a richly-illustrated study of 'The Oracles of the Three Shrines' (Japanese sanja takusen), the name given to a hanging scroll depicting three important Japanese shrine-deities, Amaterasu, Kasuga and Hachiman and their respective oracle texts. The scroll has evolved continuously in Japan for 600 years, so different examples of it offer a series of 'windows' on developments in Japanese religious belief and practice. This is a pioneering stu…
Practically Religious
Practically Religious: Worldly Benefits and the Common Religion of Japan. Ian Reader and George J. Tanabe Jr. Hawai'i University Press, Honolulu 1998. xii, 303 pp. $45 (cloth) ISBN 0-8248-2065-7; $22.95 (paper) ISBN 0-8248-209-8
A Popular Dictionary of Shinto
A comprehensive glossary and reference work with more than a thousand entries on Shinto ranging from brief definitions and Japanese terms to short essays dealing with aspects of Shinto practice, belief and institutions from early times up to the present day
Quality Time
The original version of this paper was presented on 30 June 1995 to the NATFHE Religious Studies Section's Annual Conference at the University College of St Martin, Lancaster. I am grateful to colleagues for comments and suggestions
Fundamental Rites? Religion, State, Education and the Invention of Sacred Heritage in post-Christian Britain and pre-War Japan
This paper considers recent developments in the relations between state, education and religion in Britain in the light of analogous developments in pre-war Japan. The discussion focuses on the emergence of a government-sponsored state cult developed in the late 19th century and retrospectively referred to as ‘state Shinto’. Defined as ‘non-religious’ and disseminated through the school system, it eventually incorporated all other Japanese religi…
Factionalism in Japanese religion
Comparative studies of Buddhism and Christianity
Neo-Confucian spirituality and the samurai ethic
Beachcombing, Going Native and Freethinking
The article provides an introduction to the special issue of Contemporary Buddhism entitled ‘U Dhammaloka, “The Irish Buddhist”: Rewriting the History of Early Western Buddhist Monastics’. Traditional accounts of pioneer Western Buddhist monastics begin with the 1899 ordination of H. Gordon Douglas (Aśoka), and highlight gentleman scholars writing for a European audience. They consign to obscurity a pre-existing world of Western Buddhist monastic…
Fundamental Rites? Religion, State, Education and the Invention of Sacred Heritage in post-Christian Britain and pre-War Japan
This paper considers recent developments in the relations between state, education and religion in Britain in the light of analogous developments in pre-war Japan. The discussion focuses on the emergence of a government-sponsored state cult developed in the late 19th century and retrospectively referred to as ‘state Shinto’. Defined as ‘non-religious’ and disseminated through the school system, it eventually incorporated all other Japanese religi…
A Popular Dictionary of Shinto
A comprehensive glossary and reference work with more than a thousand entries on Shinto ranging from brief definitions and Japanese terms to short essays dealing with aspects of Shinto practice, belief and institutions from early times up to the present day
Neo-Confucian spirituality and the samurai ethic
Comparative studies of Buddhism and Christianity
Factionalism in Japanese religion
Quality Time
The original version of this paper was presented on 30 June 1995 to the NATFHE Religious Studies Section's Annual Conference at the University College of St Martin, Lancaster. I am grateful to colleagues for comments and suggestions
Fundamental Rites? Religion, State, Education and the Invention of Sacred Heritage in post-Christian Britain and pre-War Japan
This paper considers recent developments in the relations between state, education and religion in Britain in the light of analogous developments in pre-war Japan. The discussion focuses on the emergence of a government-sponsored state cult developed in the late 19th century and retrospectively referred to as ‘state Shinto’. Defined as ‘non-religious’ and disseminated through the school system, it eventually incorporated all other Japanese religi…
A Popular Dictionary of Shinto
A comprehensive glossary and reference work with more than a thousand entries on Shinto ranging from brief definitions and Japanese terms to short essays dealing with aspects of Shinto practice, belief and institutions from early times up to the present day
Practically Religious
Practically Religious: Worldly Benefits and the Common Religion of Japan. Ian Reader and George J. Tanabe Jr. Hawai'i University Press, Honolulu 1998. xii, 303 pp. $45 (cloth) ISBN 0-8248-2065-7; $22.95 (paper) ISBN 0-8248-209-8
The Oracles of the Three Shrines
This is a richly-illustrated study of 'The Oracles of the Three Shrines' (Japanese sanja takusen), the name given to a hanging scroll depicting three important Japanese shrine-deities, Amaterasu, Kasuga and Hachiman and their respective oracle texts. The scroll has evolved continuously in Japan for 600 years, so different examples of it offer a series of 'windows' on developments in Japanese religious belief and practice. This is a pioneering stu…
Death and religion in a changing world
Death and religion in a changing world. Edited by KATHLEEN GARCES-FOLEY, M. E. Sharpe Inc, New York, 2006, xiv + 322pp., US$27.95, £21.95, paperback (ISBN 0765612224), US$72.95, £54.95, hardback (I
A Man of Work and Few Words’? Dhammaloka Beyond Burma
While Dhammaloka's very public career as ‘the Irish Pongyi’ (monk) c.1900–1911 was played out mainly in Burma, he also travelled extensively in other parts of Asia. There is independent evidence of his visit to Tokyo in the autumn of 1902, from which he emerged a ‘Lord Abbot’, and some information on his several months in Bangkok in 1903. Dhammaloka's activities in Singapore, where in 1903–1904 he successfully established a Buddhist Mission and f…
Beachcombing, Going Native and Freethinking
The article provides an introduction to the special issue of Contemporary Buddhism entitled ‘U Dhammaloka, “The Irish Buddhist”: Rewriting the History of Early Western Buddhist Monastics’. Traditional accounts of pioneer Western Buddhist monastics begin with the 1899 ordination of H. Gordon Douglas (Aśoka), and highlight gentleman scholars writing for a European audience. They consign to obscurity a pre-existing world of Western Buddhist monastic…
A Buddhist Crossroads
The period from the later nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth \ncenturies—roughly between the Indian Revolt of 1857 and the withdrawal of most \nEuropean powers from direct rule in Asia—was one of immense change across \nSoutheast Asia and the Buddhist world. This century saw the emergence of the \nelements that we now take to constitute modern Buddhism, or the multiple \nmodern Buddhisms: the rise of the laity as practitioners and orga…
Flagging Up Buddhism
Charles James William Pfoundes (1840–1907), a young emigrant from Southeast Ireland, spent most of his adult life in Japan, received a Japanese name ‘Omoie Tetzunostzuke’, first embraced and then turned against Theosophy and, from 1893, was ordained in several Japanese Buddhist traditions. Lacking independent means but educated, intellectually curious, entrepreneurial, fluent in Japanese and with a keen interest in Asian culture, Pfoundes subsist…
Religious Education in a Global-Local World
Sociology (10 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · History (7 works) · History (7 works) · Buddhism (5 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (5 works) · Japanese History and Culture (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Religious studies (5 works)