Bernhard Scheid
Biographic Data
| ID | 5901768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernhard Scheid |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernhard |
| FAMILY NAME | Scheid |
| SIGNATURE | SCHEID B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5737-0948 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Deities of Heaven, deities of Earth, and two aspects of foreignness in Japanese origin myths
This essay addresses some narrative strategies of the earliest Japanese texts (eighth century CE), which explain the origins and history of the ruling dynasty. I argue that these texts, which combine an annalistic style borrowed from China with what we now call »mythology«, employ a sophisticated, Janus-faced concept of foreignness. In the mythological episodes situated before the eventual establishment of the political order, both people and obj…
Religion, Power, and the Rise of Shinto in Early Modern Japan
This book sheds new light on the relationship between religion and state in early modern Japan, and demonstrates the growing awareness of Shinto in both the political and the intellectual elite of Tokugawa Japan, even though Buddhism remained the privileged means of stately religious control. The first part analyses how the Tokugawa government aimed to control the populace via Buddhism and at the same time submitted Buddhism to the sacralization …
Religion in China
Wer schützt wen? Hachimanismus, Buddhismus und Tennōismus im Altertum
The cult of Hachiman or “Hachimanism” is discussed from its inception as a national cult (mid-eighth century) to its firm establishment in the ninth century. Hachimanism was initially part of the politico-religious program of Emperor Shōmu and his daughter Abe, the “last empress”. Their kind of state Buddhism implied a combination of Buddhist ritualism based on the Golden Light Sutra and other state protecting Buddhist texts as well as non-Buddhi…
The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion
Ronald M. Davidson is a contributing author, "The Problem of Secrecy in Indian Tantric Buddhism", pp. 60-77. The Japanese Middle Ages were a period when forms of secrecy dominated religious practice. This fascinating collection traces out the secret characteristics and practices in Japanese religion, as well as analyzing the decline of religious esotericism in Japan. The essays in this impressive work refer to Esoteric Buddhism as the core of Jap…
Memories of the Divine Age
Le présent article s'efforce de revisiter le problème de la continuité et de la discontinuité dans le shintō (c'est-à-dire : en quoi le shintō actuel se construit sur d'anciennes traditions, et en quoi il en diffère) à la lumière du concept de « mémoire culturelle » tel que l'a développé Jan Assmann. Cette contribution vise à une description très générale : a) des différences subsistant entre le rituel de cour classique et le bouddhisme, et b) de…
Shinto as a Religion for the Warrior Class
This article deals with developments of Shinto in the seventeenth century, focussing on the school of Yoshikawa Shinto. It is presented as an example of the coalition between Shinto and Neo-Confucianism intellectuals typical for that time. Pointing out the medieval predecessors of this coalition, the article argues that the theological ideas of Yoshikawa Shinto were much more indebted to medieval Shinto than is generally assumed. This is demonstr…
Der Eine und Einzige Weg der Gotter
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Der Eine und Einzige Weg der Gotter
Shinto as a Religion for the Warrior Class
This article deals with developments of Shinto in the seventeenth century, focussing on the school of Yoshikawa Shinto. It is presented as an example of the coalition between Shinto and Neo-Confucianism intellectuals typical for that time. Pointing out the medieval predecessors of this coalition, the article argues that the theological ideas of Yoshikawa Shinto were much more indebted to medieval Shinto than is generally assumed. This is demonstr…
Memories of the Divine Age
Le présent article s'efforce de revisiter le problème de la continuité et de la discontinuité dans le shintō (c'est-à-dire : en quoi le shintō actuel se construit sur d'anciennes traditions, et en quoi il en diffère) à la lumière du concept de « mémoire culturelle » tel que l'a développé Jan Assmann. Cette contribution vise à une description très générale : a) des différences subsistant entre le rituel de cour classique et le bouddhisme, et b) de…
Wer schützt wen? Hachimanismus, Buddhismus und Tennōismus im Altertum
The cult of Hachiman or “Hachimanism” is discussed from its inception as a national cult (mid-eighth century) to its firm establishment in the ninth century. Hachimanism was initially part of the politico-religious program of Emperor Shōmu and his daughter Abe, the “last empress”. Their kind of state Buddhism implied a combination of Buddhist ritualism based on the Golden Light Sutra and other state protecting Buddhist texts as well as non-Buddhi…
The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion
Ronald M. Davidson is a contributing author, "The Problem of Secrecy in Indian Tantric Buddhism", pp. 60-77. The Japanese Middle Ages were a period when forms of secrecy dominated religious practice. This fascinating collection traces out the secret characteristics and practices in Japanese religion, as well as analyzing the decline of religious esotericism in Japan. The essays in this impressive work refer to Esoteric Buddhism as the core of Jap…
Religion in China
Religion, Power, and the Rise of Shinto in Early Modern Japan
This book sheds new light on the relationship between religion and state in early modern Japan, and demonstrates the growing awareness of Shinto in both the political and the intellectual elite of Tokugawa Japan, even though Buddhism remained the privileged means of stately religious control. The first part analyses how the Tokugawa government aimed to control the populace via Buddhism and at the same time submitted Buddhism to the sacralization …
Deities of Heaven, deities of Earth, and two aspects of foreignness in Japanese origin myths
This essay addresses some narrative strategies of the earliest Japanese texts (eighth century CE), which explain the origins and history of the ruling dynasty. I argue that these texts, which combine an annalistic style borrowed from China with what we now call »mythology«, employ a sophisticated, Janus-faced concept of foreignness. In the mythological episodes situated before the eventual establishment of the political order, both people and obj…
Japanese History and Culture (8 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (6 works) · History (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Religious studies (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Buddhism (2 works)