| title | authors | external_url | drive_links | course | tags | year | journal | volume | number | pages | |||||
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Watanabe Kaigyoku and Buddhist Responses to the ‘Labour Question’ in Early-Twentieth Century Japan |
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modern |
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2019 |
hijbs |
2 |
2 |
132--162 |
Watanabe did not envision a radical position for Buddhists on the issue of the ‘labour question’; rather, he imagined Buddhism as a harmonizing influence that could help avoid the pitfalls of unrestrained capitalism, on the one hand, and revolutionary socialism, on the other.
An early example of an "engaged Buddhist" reformer in early 20th century Japan.