Naoki Kashio - Spirituality as a Way: The Wisdom of Japan

Spirituality as a Way

Spirituality as a Way

The Wisdom of Japan

Edited by

Naoki Kashio
and
Carl Becker

First published in 2021 jointly by:

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Contributors

Carl BECKER

Editor
Professor at the Policy Science Unit, Kyoto University

He researches Japanese medical and environmental ethics, death and dying. He received honorary doctorates of Letters and Psychology from Bombay and Moscow, and awards from ADEC, SIETAR and the Crown Prince Akihito Foundation. Becker leads a national Japanese project investigating the effects of bereavement on productivity and medical costs, and serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals. Most of his books are in Japanese, but on spirituality, see Paranormal Experience and Survival of Death (SUNY Press, 1992), Buddhist Care for the Dying and Bereaved (J. Watts, Ed.) (Wisdom Pubs, 2012), and Spirituality, in Ten Have (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics (Springer, 2016).

Yoshihiro HAYASHI

Part-time Lecturer at Doshisha University

He specializes in philosophy of education and environmental ethics. His major publications include Toi toshiteno Spirituality (Spirituality as a Question) (Kyoto University Press, 2011); The Past as Eternally Imperishable, in Murata Yasuto (Ed.), Whitehead and Existentialism (Ky Shob, 2008, pp. 5972); Reconstructing the Meaning of Being Human: A Postmodern Reinterpretation of Frankl in the Framework of Whiteheads Philosophy, in George Derfer, Wang Zhihe and Michel Weber (Eds.), The Roar of Awakening: A Whiteheadian Dialogue between Western Psychotherapies and Eastern Worldviews (Ontos Verlag, 2009, pp. 159170); and Introducing a Time Horizon into Ethics, Process Studies, 39(1), 117125 (2011).

Naomi HIROTA

President of CREADIVA Co.

She specializes in career psychology and counseling studies. Her major publications include: Basic Research on Employment Support for Cancer Survivors in Career Counseling: Examining the Psychological Aspects of Cancer Survivors to Explore the Meaning of Working with Cancer, M-GTA Study Group News Letter, 99, 1531 (2019); Relationship between Marital Mood Swings, and Marital Relationship Satisfaction and Mental Health, 52nd Annual Conference Program of The Japanese Counseling Association, p. 48, (2019); and A Brilliant Womans Life: In Search of Beauty and Soul (Shunjsha, 2014).

Masayuki ITO

Professor at the Faculty of Letters, Aichi Gakuin University

He specializes in the sociology of religion, especially focusing on contemporary spirituality cultures including yoga, mindfulness and the Neo-Advaita movement. His major publications include: Spirituality in the Post-Secularization Era: Mindfulness Movement as a Clue, in Toji Kamata (Ed.), Course in Spiritual Studies Vol. 7, Spirituality and Religion (Being Net Press, 2016, pp. 176196); Modern Postural Yoga as a Spiritual Practice, in Naoki Kashio (Ed.), Spirituality and Culture (Keio University Press, 2012, pp. 117145); The Sociology of Spirituality, co-edited with Naoki Kashio and Tatsuya Yumiyama (Sekai Shisosha, 2004); Contemporary Societies and Spirituality: Sociological Study of Religious Consciousness (Keisui-sha, 2003); and New Spirituality in Contemporary Societies: A Comparative View on Japanese Spiritual World, in Harmut Zinser and Inken Prohl (Eds.), Zen, Reiki und Karate Japanische Religiositat in Deutschland (LIT Verlag, 2002, pp. 91108).

Takaaki David ITO

Professor of Spiritual Care at the Graduate School of Applied Religious Studies, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, and Chair of its Program in Death and Life Studies

He graduated from the International Christian University (BA) and its graduate school (MA), Tokyo, Japan, and completed his theological training at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific (Graduate Theological Union, MDiv), Berkeley, California, USA. Professor Ito is a founding member of the Japan Society for Spiritual Care and its clinical supervisor. He has served as the president of both the Asia-Pacific Council on Pastoral Care and Counselling and the International Council on Pastoral Care and Counselling. He was a visiting supervisor of Clinical Pastoral Education at Stanford Medical Center (200203). His primary mission is forming professionals of medicine, psychology, social work, education and public services, in the field of spiritual care.

Naoki KASHIO

Editor
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Letters, Keio University

He specializes in comparative meditation theory and meditation practices, especially internal alchemy. His major publications include: Linfluence de lesoterisme occidental sur les religions japonaises: theosophie, bouddhisme, nouvelles religions, Politica Hermetica, 26, pp. 1523 (2012); Legitimation de la pratique et de la pense des nouvelles religions au Japon: Lexemple de Skyo-Mahikari, in Anne Bouchy, Guillaume Carre, and Francois Lachaud (coordinator), Legitimites, legitimations: La construction de lautorit au Japon, Etudes thematiques 16, (Ecole francaise dExtreme-Orient, 2005, pp. 183197); The End of the Vitalistic Conception of Salvation: An Inquiry into Conceptual Validity in Modern Japanese New Religions, Religion and Society, 10, 6881, (2004); and Nouvelles voies spirituelles au Japon contemporain: tat des lieux et mutation de la religiosit, Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions, 109, 6785, (2000) (with Jean-Pierre Berthon). Email: