Chapter 1 Heritage-Making and the Transformation of Religion in Modern Japan
Mark Teeuwen and Aike P. Rots
Chapter 2 The Politics of Japan’s Use of World Heritage: From Ratifying the World Heritage Convention to the Mozu–Furuichi Tumulus Clusters
Tze M. Loo
Chapter 3 An Introduction to Multilateral Heritage Politics: Japan and the World Heritage Convention
Herdis Hølleland
Chapter 4 World Cultural Heritage and Women’s Exclusion from Sacred Sites in Japan
Lindsey E. DeWitt
Chapter 5 Whose Sacred Site? Contesting World Heritage at Sefa Utaki
Aike P. Rots
Chapter 6 What Does it Mean to Become UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage? The Case of aenokoto
Kikuchi Akira
Chapter 7 Kyoto’s Gion Float Parade as Heritage: Between Culture, Religion, and Faith
Mark Teeuwen
Chapter 8 The Story Beyond UNESCO: Local Buddhist Temples and the Heritage of Survival in Regional Japan
Paulina K. Kolata
Chapter 9 Omissions, Stratagems, and Dissent: The Shikoku Pilgrimage and the Problems of Applying for World Heritage Status
Ian Reader
Biography
Aike P. Rots is Associate Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Oslo. His research interests include religion and the environment, ritual and sacred space, human–nature relations, and the politics of religion in contemporary East and Southeast Asia.
Mark Teeuwen is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Oslo. His field of research is the history of religion in Japan.
"Following the introduction, eight case studies show how heritage (and religion) is negotiated and contested, politicized, and claimed. Recommended!"
Isabelle Prochaska- Meyer, University of Vienna, Religious Studies Review
