Feeling Companionship: Hansen's Disease and Moral Authority in Japanese Shin Buddhism.
This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork among Japanese Shin Buddhists who have an enduring commitment to volunteering with Hansen's disease patients in Japan and its former colonies. I trace the negotiation of emotions in this Jōdo Shinshū ethical context, identifying the Buddhist, Japanese, an...
| Published in: | Journal of Religious Ethics Vol. 51; no. 4; pp. 720 - 737 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2023
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