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9780203318508

Pilgrimages and Spiritual Quests in Japan

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  • ISBN13:

    9780203318508

  • ISBN10:

    0203318501

  • Copyright: 2007-03-20
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Summary

In a variety of interesting dimensions in both historical and contemporary Japanese culture, this exciting new book examines pilgrimages in Japan, including the meanings of travel, transformation, and the discovery of identity through encounters with the sacred.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Travel as Spiritual Quest in Japan
Pilgrimages, Paths and Places
Pilgrimage Roads in Spain and Japan
Pilgrimage, Space and Identity: Ise (Japan) and Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
The Concept of Pilgrimage in Japan
The Daily Life of the Henro on the Island of Shikoku during the Edo Priod as Mirror of Tokugawa Society
Stranger and Pilgrimage in Village Japan
Reconstructing the Quest
Current Increase in Walking Pilgrims
New Forms of Pilgrimage in Japanese Society
Old Gods, New Pilgrimages? A Whistle Stop Tour of Japanese International Theme Parks
The Quest for the Magic, Liminal, or Non-Ordinary
Pilgrimages in Japan. How Far are they Determined by Unconsciously Held Assumptions?
Agari-Umai, or the Eastern Tour: A Ryukyuan Royal Ritual and Its Transformations
Takiguchi Shuzo and Joan Miro
'Hiroshima, mon Amour': An Inner Pilgrimage to Catharsis
The Quest for Vocational Fullfillment
'Initiation Rites' and 'Pilgrimage' of Local Civil Servants in the Age of Internalization
Travel Ethnography in Japan
A Japanese Painter's Quest: Suda Kunitaro's Journey to Spain Pilgrimage and Experience: An Afterword
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