Ceremony and ritual in Japan : religious practices in an industrialized society
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Ceremony and ritual in Japan : religious practices in an industrialized society
(The Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series)
Routledge, 1995
Available at 82 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Japan is one of the most urbanised and industrialised countries in the world. Yet the Japanese continue to practise a variety of religious rituals and ceremonies despite the high-tech, highly regimented nature of Japanese society. Ceremony and Ritual in Japan focuses on the traditional and religious aspects of Japanese society from an anthropological perspective, presenting new material and making cross-cultural comparisons.
The chapters in this collection cover topics as diverse as funerals and mourning, sweeping, women's roles in ritual, the division of ceremonial foods into bitter and sweet, the history of a shrine, the playing of games, the exchange of towels and the relationship between ceremony and the workplace. The book provides an overview of the meaning of tradition, and looks at the way in which new ceremonies have sprung up in changing circumstances, while old ones have been preserved, or have developed new meanings.
Table of Contents
- Introduction, Jan van Bremen
- Part 1 The question of tradition
- Chapter 1 Wedding and funeral ritual, Robert J. Smith
- Chapter 2 Rituality in the kengame, Sepp Linhart
- Chapter 3 The parish of a famous shrine, Sylvie Guichard-Anguis
- Part 2 Rituals for the dead
- Chapter 4 On structural duality in Japanese conceptions of death, Halldor Stefansson
- Chapter 5 Orchestrated reciprocity, Jane M. Bachnik
- Chapter 6 Memorial monuments and memorial services of Japanese companies, Hirochika Nakamaki
- Part 3 The tools of ceremony
- Chapter 7 A Japanese Shint? Parade, Arne Kalland
- Chapter 8, D.P. Martinez
- Chapter 9 Sonaemono, Jane Cobbi
- Chapter 10, Joy Hendry
- Chapter 11 Cleaning floors and sweeping the mind, Ian Reader
- conclusion Conclusion: The rituals of urbanity, Augustin Berque
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