Secrecy’s Power: Covert Shin Buddhists in Japan and Contradictions of Concealment 9780824851347

Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Conventions
Introduction
Part One: Secrecy in the History of Covert Shin Buddhists
1. Secrecy Causes Criticism and Persecution
2. Secrecy Preserves and Transforms
Part Two: Concealment in Contemporary Urahōmon
3. Secrecy Alters by Separating and Joining
4. Secrecy Creates Dilemmas
5. Secrecy Gives Order
Epilogue
Notes
Glossary of Japanese Characters
Bibliography
Index

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