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Renouncing Renunciation: The Danka System and the Decline of Buddhist Monasticism in Early Modern JapanRestricted Access Jakhelln-Semb, Bjarne (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2021)Following the legalisation of clerical marriage in 1872, the Japanese Buddhist clergy of the so-called monastic sects have gone from being celibate monastics to (mostly) married householder priests, akin to Protestant ...