1st Edition
Japanese Religions at Home and Abroad Anthropological Perspectives
By Hirochika Nakamaki
Copyright 2003
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this important book, a leading authority on Japanese religions brings together for the first time in English his extensive work on the subject. The book is important both for what it reveals about Japanese religions, and also because it demonstrates for western readers the distinctive Japanese approaches to the study of the subject and the different Japanese intellectual traditions which inform... Read more
Part I. At Home 1. A Consumer's Perspective of Religious Habitat Segregation in Japan 2. The Dialectics of Japanese Religious Thought and Organisation 3. Modern Japanese Religions from the Perspective of Civilisation Studies' 4. The Symbolic Analysis' of a Shinto Festival 5. Continuity and Change' in Japanese Funeral Customs 6. Metaphors of Initiation and Pilgrimage in Japan Part II. Abroad 7. Ecological and Immunological Aspects of Japanese Buddhism in the Americas 8. Ethnic Identity' and Japanese Christian Churches in the USA 9. The Life History of a Japanese Buddhist Leader in Brazil 10. Perfect Liberty Kyodan as a Multinational Enterprise
Biography
Hirochika Nakamaki is Professor and Director of the Department of Advanced Studies Ethnology at the National Museum of Ethnology, Japan. He has conducted research on Japanese religions in Hawaii, California and Brazil as well as in Japan. He has edited The Culture of Association and Associations in Contemporary Japanese Society (2002), and co-edited Japanese Civilization in the Modern World VI Religion (1990) and Possessao e Procissao: Religiosidade Popular no Brasil (1994).
