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Zen and Material Culture de Pamela D. Winfield

Zen and Material Culture

Editat de Pamela D. Winfield, Steven Heine
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 aug 2017

Remarcăm în acest volum o schimbare de paradigmă necesară în studiile budiste, care pornește de la analiza concretă a „lucrurilor” — de la mătănii (beads) și boluri de cerșetorie, până la arhitectura complexă a templelor și veșmintele monahale peticite. Studiile de caz incluse dezvăluie modul în care cultura vizuală și obiectele cotidiene ale sectelor Sōtō, Rinzai și Ōbaku nu sunt simple accesorii, ci elemente centrale care susțin idealurile spirituale și supraviețuirea economică a instituțiilor Zen. Ne-a atras atenția în mod deosebit modul în care autorii documentează tranziția acestor obiecte de la statutul de instrumente liturgice la cel de mărfuri de retail în contextul american contemporan.

Zen and Material Culture funcționează ca o alternativă pragmatică la Buddhist Materiality pentru cursurile de istoria religiilor sau antropologie culturală, având avantajul unei focalizări stricte pe spațiul nipon și pe diversitatea sectară a acestuia. În timp ce Fabio Rambelli propune o filosofie generală a materialității, editorii Pamela D. Winfield și Steven Heine aleg o abordare interdisciplinară care combină istoria artei cu studiile de gen și analiza economică. Apreciem rigoarea cu care sunt tratate „materiile Zen”, demonstrând că abundența iconică nu contrazice, ci fundamentează practica meditativă.

Această lucrare continuă preocupările academice ale editorilor, raportându-se direct la temele explorate de Pamela D. Winfield în Icons and Iconoclasm in Japanese Buddhism, unde analiza imagisticii era centrală pentru experiența iluminării. Dacă în The Religious Body Imagined accentul cădea pe producția discursivă a corpului, volumul de față extinde această investigație asupra întregului univers tactil al practicii budiste. Este o resursă esențială care completează studiile pur textuale sau ritualice, oferind o perspectivă palpabilă asupra unei tradiții adesea idealizate ca fiind pur imaterială.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190469306
ISBN-10: 0190469307
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 155 x 234 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor și studenților interesați de budismul japonez care doresc să depășească clișeele despre minimalismul Zen. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care obiectele fizice — de la statui la simple cârpe — modelează identitatea religioasă și succesul instituțional. Este o lectură fundamentală pentru a înțelege legătura fină dintre spiritualitate și materialismul economic în istoria culturală a Japoniei.

Despre autor

Pamela D. Winfield este profesor de studii religioase, specializată în relația dintre arta și gândirea budistă niponă, fiind cunoscută pentru analizele sale asupra vizualității în școlile ezoterice. Steven Heine este un expert recunoscut la nivel internațional în istoria și filosofia Zen-ului, publicând extensiv despre viața și opera maestrului Dōgen. Împreună, cei doi editori combină expertiza în hermeneutică textuală și istoria culturii materiale pentru a oferi o viziune nuanțată asupra tradiției Zen, integrând perspective istorice cu realități contemporane din spațiul asiatic și american.

Descriere

The stereotype of Zen Buddhism as a minimalistic or even immaterial meditative tradition persists in the Euro-American cultural imagination. This volume calls attention to the vast range of "stuff" in Zen by highlighting the material abundance and iconic range of the Sōtō, Rinzai, and Ōbaku sects in Japan. Chapters on beads, bowls, buildings, staffs, statues, rags, robes, and even retail commodities in America all shed new light on overlooked items of lay and monastic practice in both historical and contemporary perspectives. Nine authors from the cognate fields of art history, religious studies, and the history of material culture analyze these "Zen c matters" in all four senses of the phrase: the interdisciplinary study of Zen's matters (objects and images) ultimately speaks to larger Zen matters (ideas, ideals) that matter (in the predicate sense) to both male and female practitioners, often because such matters (economic considerations) help to ensure the cultural and institutional survival of the tradition.Zen and Material Culture expands the study of Japanese Zen Buddhism to include material inquiry as an important complement to mainly textual, institutional, or ritual studies. It also broadens the traditional purview of art history by incorporating the visual culture of everyday Zen objects and images into the canon of recognized masterpieces by elite artists. Finally, the volume extends Japanese material and visual cultural studies into new research territory by taking up Zen's rich trove of materia liturgica and supplementing the largely secular approach to studying Japanese popular culture. This groundbreaking volume will be a resource for anyone whose interests lie at the intersection of Zen art, architecture, history, ritual, tea ceremony, women's studies, and the fine line between Buddhist materiality and materialism.

Recenzii

Winfield and Heine have done a good job in all respects: the book is not only very well edited but it is likely to become a must read for scholars and students willing to approach critically this Buddhist tradition.
The authors include four art historians and five from Buddhist studies; all are interested in deciphering the material cultures associated with Japanese Zen and dispelling long-held stereotypes in the West that Zen transcends worldly "things." By using interdisciplinary methods, they bring valuable insights on how familiar objects of Zen practice "materialize abstract idea(l)s into concrete form," making this volume an important contribution to cultural studies and Buddhist studies
The objective of Zen and Material Culture is precisely to address and examine Zen's seemingly contradictory attitude towards statues, paintings, and ritual implements ... this work urges us to forgo many of the assumptions concerning Zen that we have long taken for granted despite their flimsy foundations... It is difficult to find any flaw in this illuminating work, which has been authored by leading scholars in their respective fields... Zen and Material Culture is a must-read for all scholars and students interested in Zen Buddhism, and there is little doubt that this book would serve as a foundational text in the study of Zen Buddhist materiality for generations to follow.
Zen and Material Culture is a welcome addition to the growing arena of material studies of Japanese religions... by directly engaging the material culture of Zen Buddhism in multiple forms, this book is an important contribution to the study of Zen and Japanese culture. It can be used productively in the classroom, both in undergraduate and graduate courses, and it will surely generate further investigations.
Even the loftiest of all spiritual traditions rests on a material foundation, and this magnificent book presents that grounding for Japanese Zen with aesthetic sensitivity and historical precision. This is a truly important contribution to the study of Zen Buddhism and the always astonishing material culture of Japan.
Following current trends in the study of religion that focus on material culture and everyday 'lived' religion, this volume looks at the materiality of Japanese and American Zen, as seen in the intersections of religion, art history, and economic history... The collection fosters reconsideration of the Zen rhetoric of austerity and aniconic practice, and raises important questions about how ideas and ideals take material form. Useful for scholars of religion, Japan, Buddhism, and art history.
... by directing attention to the 'stuff' of Zen, through essays that embrace various material culture-centered approaches, the publication re-frames (or adds another dimension to) the study of Zen, which - until more recently - has privileged an academic discourse about mind over one about matter.... The essays are arranged in rough chronological order, spanning the thirteenth century in Japan to the present, inclusive of Soto, Rinzai, and Obaku contexts, but their scopes and source materials extend more broadly in time and space... the insights and methodologies the authors work through are certainly able to be incorporated into any course that touches on Zen.
Reading the volume... I came to see great value in the sort of close observation at work in these case studies as well as the synergistic effect of bringing multiple disciplines or fields together between the covers of a single volume. The editors deserve our praise and our thanks as well for putting together a cohesive and provocative collection... The [articles] are admirable both for their specificity and for their insistence on reflecting a larger picture that situates Zen as a corner of larger discourses within Japanese Buddhism... I would like to congratulate the editors and the authors for a very lively and interesting volume. It is most welcome and I know I will use chapters in my Zen class.
I agree with Pamela Winfield and Steven Heine's charge that there is a popular misconception of Zen, and Buddhism at large, as meditative or minimalist, and not concerned with worldly material possessions. I am excited that one of this edited volume's goals is to disabuse others of this notion... While there is academic attention on Buddhist financial matters in India, China, Tibet and some work on Japan, I do not see as much on Zen. Therefore, Winfield and Heine's volume is quite timely.

Notă biografică

Pamela D. Winfield is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University, NC. She specializes in Japanese Buddhist art and doctrine in the esoteric and Zen traditions. Her previous book Icons and Iconoclasm in Japanese Buddhism: Kūkai and Dōgen on the Art of Enlightenment (Oxford University Press, 2013) won the annual Book Prize from the Association of Asian Studies Southeast Conference in 2015.Steven Heine is Professor of Religious Studies and History, and Director of the Asian Studies Program at Florida International University in Miami, FL. A 2007 recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun Award from the Japanese government, Heine is the author of more than two dozen books and one hundred articles and book chapters on East Asian religions, especially the role of Zen in China and Japan and the relation between religiosity and society.