1st Edition
The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion
1. Introduction: Japan's Medieval Culture of Secrecy Mark Teeuwen Part 1 : Prologue 2. Secrets, Secrecy, and the Study of Religions Albert de Jong 3. The Problem of Secrecy in Indian Tantric Buddhism Ronald M Davidson 4. Myth and Secrecy in Tang-Period Tantric Buddhism Martin Lehnert Part 2: Japan's Medieval Culture of Secrecy 5. Secrecy in Japanese Esoteric Buddhism Fabio Rambelli 6. Reconsidering the Taxonomy of the "Esoteric" Lucia Dolce 7. Knowing vs. Owning a Secret Mark Teeuwen 8. Secrecy, Sex and Apocrypha Nobumi Iyanaga 9. Esotericism in Noh Commentaries and Plays Susan B. Klein 10. The Elephant in the Room Bernard Faure 11. Myths, Rites, and Icons Atsushi Kadoya 12. Two Modes of Secrecy Bernard Scheid Part 3: The Demise of Secrecy 13. When Secrecy Ends William Bodiford 14. Hiding the Shoguns Anne Walthall 15. "Esoteric" and "Public" Kate Wildman Nakai
Biography
Bernhard Scheid is a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Mark Teeuwen is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway.
