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Ceremony and Ritual in Japan Religious Practices in an Industrialized Society
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Routledge
284 Pages
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Routledge
284 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
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, Halldór Stefánsson; 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;
Biography
Jan van Bremen, D.P. Martinez
