{"title":"Chen Hailiang’s Vision of Buddhist Family Life: A Preliminary Study","authors":"P. Katz","doi":"10.1353/jcr.2019.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jcr.2019.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper attempts to provide an overview of how modern Chinese Buddhists worked to blend self-cultivation and family life, with a focus on the ideal of the “Buddhicized family” (Fohua jiating 佛化家庭) as expressed in the writings of the lay Buddhist elite Chen Hailiang 陳海量 (1910–1983), which provided spiritual and material advice for readers striving to achieve equilibrium between religious requirements and social norms. Due to his extensive work with young Buddhist men and women who were seeking spouses, getting married, and starting their own families, Chen’s works paid close attention to issues of gender and sexuality, including childbirth, menstruation, masturbation, etc. Chen’s vision of modern Buddhist family life sheds light on significant processes of change taking place in the early twentieth century, with that religion’s urban elites seeking to define their approach to Buddhism in such a way that both maintained their commitment to social activism yet established the basis for a rich religious life. The data below highlight the complexity of Buddhist thought during the modern era, the interaction between religious discourses and others circulating at that time, and the continuing relevance of these issues in present-day Chinese societies around the world.摘要:本文欲探討近代中國佛教徒如何致力於融合自我修行與家庭生活,以居士精英陳海量(1910-1983)著作中「佛化家庭」理念為討論核心。陳海量的論著,向讀者提供了達致宗教要求與社會規範平衡之精神與物質層面的建議,探討年輕佛教徒男女尋偶、結婚與組織家庭時,更密切關注於性別與性行為的議題,包括分娩、月經、手淫等。陳海量對近代佛教徒家庭生活的願景,揭示了20世紀初重大演變過程,即城市宗教菁英份子,以參與社會活動為豐富的宗教生活奠基的方式來實踐佛教。下文將凸顯近代佛教思想的複雜性,包括宗教論述與其他當時流傳的其他思想間的互動,以及那些討論議題在當代華人世界社會中的延續性。","PeriodicalId":53120,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Religions","volume":"47 1","pages":"33 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41661942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Dimensions that Establish and Sustain Religious Identity: A Study of Chinese Singaporeans Who are Buddhists or Taoists by Daniel H. Y. Low (review)","authors":"J. Chia","doi":"10.1353/jcr.2019.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jcr.2019.0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53120,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Religions","volume":"47 1","pages":"104 - 106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46918126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Death Rituals and Politics in Northern Song China by Mihwa Choi (review)","authors":"M. Ing","doi":"10.1353/jcr.2019.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jcr.2019.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53120,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Religions","volume":"47 1","pages":"93 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47160264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ouyang Jingwu’s Must-Read Buddhist Classics for Laity: Body Politics and Gendered Soteriology","authors":"J. Zu","doi":"10.1353/jcr.2019.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jcr.2019.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This study articulates a prescriptive vision of gender and family put forth by the renowned leader of the laity-led Yogācāra (Consciousness-only) revival, Ouyang Jingwu 歐陽竟無 (1837–1943), whose vision of a Buddhicized family remains unexplored. This vision is best illustrated in his 1931 edited anthology of scriptures, The Must-Read Buddhist (Inner) Classics for Laity 在家必讀內典, sometimes dubbed a Buddhist bible by its readers. It was produced at the request of the Buddhist politician Dai Jitao 戴季陶 shortly after the Nationalist Party elder Hu Hanmin 胡漢民 masterminded the New Civil Code. While Dai held politically conservative beliefs about gender, Hu stipulated absolute gender equality in family settings. This study demonstrates that to garner wider support from intellectuals with diverging views on gender and family, Ouyang refashioned ancient Indian gender anxiety into disciplinary techniques intended to marshal the entirety of life and afterlives in service of the emerging nation-state.摘要:本文研究近代居士唯識學運動的代表人之一歐陽竟無(1837-1943)所提出的佛化家庭的概念及其中關於性別與救贖的潛台詞。通過細讀歐陽1931年所編輯的《在家必讀內典》及其編輯的相關情境,本文闡明歐陽所領導的佛學復興運動與佛化國家主義的不可忽視的聯繫。這一佛教經典選集是應佛教國家主義者戴季陶的要求而編輯的。1931年正值國民黨長老胡漢民所策劃的《新民法》隆重出台。雖然戴季陶對性別平等持保守態度,胡的《新民法》的關於家庭的法規中所體現的性別平等觀念更為激進。本文指出,為了調和佛教知識分子對性別平等和佛化家庭的不同認知並獲得更廣泛的社會支持,歐陽將古印度經典中對性別的焦慮調換為現代的規訓技術,其旨在與將個人的今生後世整體性地歸納與新興的國家主義的國民義務中。","PeriodicalId":53120,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Religions","volume":"47 1","pages":"61 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46295103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Konversion zum Christentum in der modernen chinesischen Literatur by Barbara Hoster (review)","authors":"A. Riemenschnitter","doi":"10.5167/UZH-171242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5167/UZH-171242","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53120,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Religions","volume":"47 1","pages":"95 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42074575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making Saints in Modern China ed. by David Ownby, Vincent Goossaert, and Ji Zhe (review)","authors":"Erik J. Hammerstrom","doi":"10.1353/jcr.2019.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jcr.2019.0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53120,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Religions","volume":"47 1","pages":"106 - 109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44073492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Confucianisms for a Changing World Cultural Order ed. by Roger T. Ames and Peter D. Hershock (review)","authors":"Bart Dessein","doi":"10.1353/jcr.2019.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jcr.2019.0003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53120,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Religions","volume":"47 1","pages":"87 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43203196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Woman Who Discovered Printing by T. H. Barrett (review)","authors":"J. Kieschnick","doi":"10.1353/jcr.2008.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jcr.2008.0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53120,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Religions","volume":"36 1","pages":"119 - 121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42478365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Passing the Light: The Incense Light Community and Buddhist Nuns in Contemporary Taiwan by Chün-fang Yü (review)","authors":"Esther-Maria Guggenmos","doi":"10.1353/jcr.2014.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jcr.2014.0038","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53120,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Religions","volume":"42 1","pages":"256 - 259"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48139636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}