The Social Dimension of Shin Buddhism
Biographical note
Ugo Dessì, Ph.D. (Religious Studies) currently teaches at the Institute of Religious Studies, University of Leipzig. He has published on Shin Buddhism and Japanese religions including Ethics and Society in Contemporary Shin Buddhism (Lit Verlag, 2007).
Contributors include: Ugo Dessì, Martin Repp, Galen Amstutz, Melissa Anne-Marie Curley, Jessica Main, Simone Heidegger, and Elisabetta Porcu.
Contributors include: Ugo Dessì, Martin Repp, Galen Amstutz, Melissa Anne-Marie Curley, Jessica Main, Simone Heidegger, and Elisabetta Porcu.
Readership
All those interested in Shin Buddhism, Pure Land Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism, Japanese religions, and the interplay between religion and society in historical and contemporary perspective.
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