Pilgrimages and spiritual quests in Japan
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Pilgrimages and spiritual quests in Japan
(Japan anthropology workshop series : (JAWS))
Routledge, 2007
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 34 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
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This exciting new book is a detailed examination of pilgrimages in Japan, including the meanings of travel, transformation, and the discovery of identity through encounters with the sacred, in a variety of interesting dimensions in both historical and contemporary Japanese culture, linked by the unifying theme of a spiritual quest.
Several fascinating new approaches to traditional forms of pilgrimage are put forward by a wide range of specialists in anthropology, religion and cultural studies, who set Japanese pilgrimage in a wider comparative perspective. They apply models of pilgrimage to quests for vocational fulfilment, examining cases as diverse as the civil service, painting and poetry, and present ethnographies of contemporary reconstructions of old spiritual quests, as conflicting (and sometimes global) demands impinge on the time and space of would-be pilgrims.
Table of Contents
Introduction. Travel as Spiritual Quest in Japan Part 1: Pilgrimages, Paths and Places 1. Pilgrimage Roads in Spain and Japan 2. Pilgrimage, Space and Identity: Ise (Japan) and Santiago de Compostela (Spain) 3. The Concept of Pilgrimage in Japan 4. The Daily Life of the Henro on the Island of Shikoku during the Edo Priod as Mirror of Tokugawa Society 5. Stranger and Pilgrimage in Village Japan Part 2: Reconstructing the Quest 6. Current Increase in Walking Pilgrims 7. New Forms of Pilgrimage in Japanese Society 8. Old Gods, New Pilgrimages? A Whistle Stop Tour of Japanese International Theme Parks Part 3: The Quest for the Magic, Liminal, or Non-Ordinary 9. Pilgrimages in Japan. How Far are they Determined by Unconsciously Held Assumptions? 10. Agari-Umai, or the Eastern Tour: A Ryukyuan Royal Ritual and Its Transformations 11. Takiguchi Shuzo and Joan Miro 12. 'Hiroshima, mon Amour': An Inner Pilgrimage to Catharsis Part 4: The Quest for Vocational Fullfillment 13. 'Initiation Rites' and 'Pilgrimage' of Local Civil Servants in the Age of Internalization 14. Travel Ethnography in Japan 15. A Japanese Painter's Quest: Suda Kunitaro's Journey to Spain. Pilgrimage and Experience: An Afterword
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