It takes the average reader 4 hours and 22 minutes to read Bonds of the Dead by Mark Michael Rowe
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. For that reason, Japanese Buddhism’s social and economic base has long been in mortuary services—a base now threatened by public debate over the status, treatment, and location of the dead. Bonds of the Dead explores the crisis brought on by this debate and investigates what changing burial forms reveal about the ways temple Buddhism is perceived and propagated in contemporary Japan. Mark Rowe offers a crucial account of how religious, political, social,...
Bonds of the Dead by Mark Michael Rowe is 256 pages long, and a total of 65,536 words.
This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 80% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 58 minutes to read Bonds of the Dead aloud.
Bonds of the Dead is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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