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Against Harmony: Progressive and Radical Buddhism in Modern Japan by James Mark Shields (review)

Against Harmony: Progressive and Radical Buddhism in Modern Japan by James Mark Shields (review) Review Section 399 Against Harmony: Progressive and Radical Buddhism in Modern Japan. By James Mark Shields. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2017. x, 404 pages. $105.00. Reviewed by Melissa Anne-Marie Curley Ohio State University In Against Harmony: Progressive and Radical Buddhism in Modern Japan, James Mark Shields offers a genealogy of progressive Buddhism from the 1880s through the 1930s. He emphasizes fi gures who qualify, in his terms, as radical: those Buddhists who took up political and social activism while positioning themselves, in one way or another, as opposed to the existing political regime (p. 22). As a catalogue of 50 years of Buddhist experiments with progressivism, Against Harmony vividly depicts the tumult and intel- lectual excitement of this period in history. Against Harmony is one of a number of recent books to interrogate East Asian Buddhist encounters with socialism, communism, and anarchism; we might mention here, for example, Fabio Rambelli’s Zen Anarchism: The Egalitarian Dharma of Uchiyama Gudo ¯ (Institute of Buddhist Stud- ies, 2014); Justin Ritzinger’s Anarchy in the Pure Land: Reinventing the Cult of Maitreya in Modern Chinese Buddhism (Oxford University Press, 2017); and the fi rst section of the edited volume Buddhist Modernities: Re- Inventing Tradition http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of Japanese Studies Society for Japanese Studies

Against Harmony: Progressive and Radical Buddhism in Modern Japan by James Mark Shields (review)

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Review Section 399 Against Harmony: Progressive and Radical Buddhism in Modern Japan. By James Mark Shields. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2017. x, 404 pages. $105.00. Reviewed by Melissa Anne-Marie Curley Ohio State University In Against Harmony: Progressive and Radical Buddhism in Modern Japan, James Mark Shields offers a genealogy of progressive Buddhism from the 1880s through the 1930s. He emphasizes fi gures who qualify, in his terms, as radical: those Buddhists who took up political and social activism while positioning themselves, in one way or another, as opposed to the existing political regime (p. 22). As a catalogue of 50 years of Buddhist experiments with progressivism, Against Harmony vividly depicts the tumult and intel- lectual excitement of this period in history. Against Harmony is one of a number of recent books to interrogate East Asian Buddhist encounters with socialism, communism, and anarchism; we might mention here, for example, Fabio Rambelli’s Zen Anarchism: The Egalitarian Dharma of Uchiyama Gudo ¯ (Institute of Buddhist Stud- ies, 2014); Justin Ritzinger’s Anarchy in the Pure Land: Reinventing the Cult of Maitreya in Modern Chinese Buddhism (Oxford University Press, 2017); and the fi rst section of the edited volume Buddhist Modernities: Re- Inventing Tradition

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The Journal of Japanese Studies – Society for Japanese Studies

Published: Jul 31, 2018

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