The secret world : an ethnography of Shugendō in northeastern Japan
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書誌事項
The secret world : an ethnography of Shugendō in northeastern Japan
（Where religion lives）
The University of North Carolina Press, [2025]
- cloth
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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Summary:"In this compelling narrative of discovery set in Japan's remote Dewa Sanzan mountain range, Shayne A.P. Dahl describes Shugendo, a secretive religious tradition that combines aspects of Shinto, Buddhism, and mountain worship. As a participant-observer, Dahl invites readers into the practices of contemporary ascetics who see the sacred mountains as wombs within which cycles of life, death, and rebirth can be harnessed for the sake of personal transformation and existential realization. As Dahl argues, immersion in Shugendo provides ascetics and pilgrims with an escape from capitalist modernity and an avenue for self-reflection in the wake of the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster near Fukushima in March 2011. Immersing readers in the intimate and hidden dimensions of Shugendo, Dahl sheds light on how practitioners sustain their traditions in the face of modern temptations and tensions within their religious communities. Filled with insight into Shugendo's contribution to Japanese cultural ident
収録内容
- Mountains of Time: A Tour of Mount Haguro
- Summits and Waterfalls: The Shugyō Experience
- Rebirth in the Mountain's Womb: Shugyō Interpreted
- The Buddha and the Kami: Mountain Politics and Historical Consciousness
- Autumn's Peak: Buddhist Temporality and Ascetic Ethics
- Summits Where Souls Gather: Ancestral Spacetime and Disaster Pilgrimage on Gassan
- The Buddha Mummies of Mount Yudono: Cosmic Bodies of the Future Past The Mountain Vista