Regulating chance
Buddhist temple lotteries, government oversight, and anti-Buddhist discourse in early modern Japan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2181844 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Micah Mitchell (0000-0002-3806-4582, Allegheny College, corresponding author), Matthew Mitchell (0000-0001-7739-7075) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 716-732 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Cultural Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-0350 • E-ISSN: 1753-0369 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17530350.2022.2120053 |
| OpenAlex | W4300979588 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 23 |
This article outlines the history of lotteries in Japan, why and how Buddhist temples used them to raise funds for temple repairs in the early modern period (c. 1600–1868), and the larger moral-economic debates in which they became embroiled. It shows that while lotteries are worth examining for their importance to the maintenance of Buddhist temples in the early modern period, their study also provides a window into the competing values and interests at play in Japan in the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. This affected how and when temples could use lotteries to raise funds and would eventually come to inform how modern scholars came to view Buddhism in early modern Japan. Attention to this kind of ‘politics of value,’ I suggest, might also provide useful insights for both historical and historiographical studies of religious fundraising in other times and places
Ancient history · Buddhism · Linguistics · Political science · Sociology · Temple · Theology · Chinese history and philosophy · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Japanese History and Culture · Philosophy
Introduction
The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture
Performing the Great Peace
Edo Culture
Religion and Society in Nineteenth-Century Japan
The Making of Modern Japan
In Search of the Way
Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art, 1600–2005
Against the Ghosts of Recent Past
Buddhist Monasteries and Four Money-raising Institutions in Chinese History
Servants, Shophands, and Laborers in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan
Religion in Japanese History
Toward An Anthropological Theory of Value
It is value that brings universes into being
The value of (performative) acts
Prologue
Financial value
"Introduction
Value and virtue
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |