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Hardcover Bones of Contention: Animals and Religion in Contemporary Japan Book

ISBN: 082483626X

ISBN13: 9780824836269

Bones of Contention: Animals and Religion in Contemporary Japan

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Since the 1990s the Japanese pet industry has grown to a trillion-yen business and estimates place the number of pets above the number of children under the age of fifteen. There are between 6,000 to 8,000 businesses in the Japanese pet funeral industry, including more than 900 pet cemeteries. Of these about 120 are operated by Buddhist temples, and Buddhist mortuary rites for pets have become an institutionalized practice. In Bones of Contention,...

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