Guardians of the Buddha's Home: Domestic Religion in Contemporary Jodo Shinshu

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Guardians of the Buddha's Home: Domestic Religion in Contemporary Jodo ShinshuIn Guardians of the Buddha's Home, Jessica Starling draws on nearly three years of ethnographic research to provide a comprehensive view of Jodo Shinshu (True Pure Land) temple life with temple wives (known as bomori, or temple guardians) at its center. Throughout, she focuses on ""domestic religion,"" a mode of doing religion centering on more informal religious expression that has received scant attention in the scholarly literature. The Buddhist

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