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Defining Shugendo : Critical Studies on Japanese Mountain Religion.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Castiglioni, Andrea
Corporate Author: Bloomsbury (Firm)
Other Authors: Rambelli, Fabio, Roth, Carina
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020.
Subjects:
Shugen (Sect)
Haguro Mountain (Japan)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part 1: Intellectual History of Shugendo Studies
  • 2. A Critical History of the Study of Shugendo and Mountain Beliefs in Japan, Suzuki Masataka (Keio University, Japan) Part 2: Constructed Topologies and Invented Chronologies
  • 3. Shugendo within Japanese Buddhism, Hasegawa Kenji (Prefectural Museum of Tokushima, Japan)
  • 4. Imagining an Ancient Tradition: Eighteenth-Century Narratives of Shugendo at Mount Togakushi,
  • Caleb Carter (Kyushu University, Japan)
  • 5. Otake Dainichi Nyorai and Haguro Shugendo: Unearthing a Lost History, Gaynor Sekimori (SOAS, University of London, UK)
  • 6. Shugendo and Modernity Face to Face: The Daigoji Case, Hayashi Makoto (Aichi Gakuin University, Japan)
  • Part 3: Imagining the Founder, En no Gyoja, and Fictionalizing Shugendo
  • 7. Between Companionship and Worship: A Reflection on En no Gyoja Statuary Past and Present,
  • Carina Roth (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
  • 8. En no Gyoja's Legitimization in the Context of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism, Kawasaki Tsuyoshi (Shujitsu University, Japan
  • 9. The Description of Mountains in Minoodera engi, Niki Natsumi (National Institute of Technology, Akashi College, Japan)
  • 10. Images of the Shugenja in Edo Popular Fiction, William Fleming (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
  • Part 4: Materiality and Visual Culture of Shugendo
  • 11. The Cult and Statuary of Zao Gongen, Fujioka Yutata (Osaka University, Japan)
  • 12. Religious Culture in Transition: Mt. Fuji, Janine Sawada (Brown University, USA)
  • 13. The Shape of Devotion: Mounds, Stelae, and Empowering Ritual Fasting, Andrea Castiglioni (Nagoya City University, Japan
  • 14. Shugendo as Social Practice: Kumano Talismans and Inscribed Oaths in Premodern Japan, (Max Moerman (Barnard College, USA)
  • Bibliography
  • Index