The ABC of funerals. Humour and satire on funerary rituals in contemporary Japan
In the 1960s Tamamuro Taijō, observing how funerals had become the main activity of Japanese Buddhism, critically coined the expression “Funeral Buddhism” to refer to Buddhist practices in modern Japan. Later developments led to an increasing process of commodification, in some cases even spectacula...
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UNICApress
2017-02-01
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| Online Access: | http://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/2180 |