Geography Of Religion In Japan

Author : Keisuke Matsui
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 4431545506
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geography of Religion in Japan written by Keisuke Matsui and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-09 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses modern aspects of Japanese religion in terms of cultural geography. To understand the function of religion, it is essential to examine it in the context of local societies. One of the distinguishing characteristics of Japanese religion is its diversity; indeed, it is often remarked that “Japan is a museum of religions.” In this work, the author clarifies some geographical aspects of the complex situation of Japanese religion. Chapter 1 discusses the trend of geographical studies of religion in Japan, of which four types can be identified. Chapter 2 focuses on certain characteristics of Japanese religious traditions by discussing tree worship and the landscape of sacred places. Chapter 3 clarifies regional divisions in the catchment areas of Japanese Shintoism by analyzing the distribution of certain types of believers. The author discusses two case studies: the Kasama Inari Shrine and the Kanamura Shrine. Chapter 4 discusses some modern aspects of sacred places and tourism through two case studies. The first part of the chapter focuses on changes in the types of businesses at the Omotesando of the Naritasan Shinshoji-Monzenmachi, and the following sections examine the revitalization of the local community through the promotion of religious tourism.

Author : A. D. Hail
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan and Its Rescue written by A. D. Hail and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : D. Max Moerman
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824890051
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Japanese Buddhist World Map written by D. Max Moerman and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries Japanese monks created hundreds of maps to construct and locate their place in a Buddhist world. This expansively illustrated volume is the first to explore the largely unknown archive of Japanese Buddhist world maps and analyze their production, reproduction, and reception. In examining these fascinating sources of visual and material culture, author D. Max Moerman argues for an alternative history of Japanese Buddhism—one that compels us to recognize the role of the Buddhist geographic imaginary in a culture that encompassed multiple cartographic and cosmological world views. The contents and contexts of Japanese Buddhist world maps reveal the ambivalent and shifting position of Japan in the Buddhist world, its encounter and negotiation with foreign ideas and technologies, and the possibilities for a global history of Buddhism and science. Moerman’s visual and intellectual history traces the multiple trajectories of Japanese Buddhist world maps, beginning with the earliest extant Japanese map of the world: a painting by a fourteenth-century Japanese monk charting the cosmology and geography of India and Central Asia based on an account written by a seventh-century Chinese pilgrim-monk. He goes on to discuss the cartographic inclusion and marginal position of Japan, the culture of the copy and the power of replication in Japanese Buddhism, and the transcultural processes of engagement and response to new visions of the world produced by Iberian Christians, Chinese Buddhists, and the Japanese maritime trade. Later chapters explore the transformations in the media and messages of Buddhist cartography in the age of print culture and in intellectual debates during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries over cosmology and epistemology and the polemics of Buddhist science. The Japanese Buddhist World Map offers a wholly innovative picture of Japanese Buddhism that acknowledges the possibility of multiple and heterogeneous modernities and alternative visions of Japan and the world.

Author : Vasiliĭ Mikhaĭlovich Golovnin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.9Y/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recollections of Japan written by Vasiliĭ Mikhaĭlovich Golovnin and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ichiro Hori
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226353346
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Folk Religion in Japan written by Ichiro Hori and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ichiro Hori's is the first book in Western literature to portray how Shinto, Buddhist, Confucian, and Taoist elements, as well as all manner of archaic magical beliefs and practices, are fused on the folk level. Folk religion, transmitted by the common people from generation to generation, has greatly conditioned the political, economic, and cultural development of Japan and continues to satisfy the emotional and religious needs of the people. Hori examines the organic relationship between the Japanese social structure—the family kinship system, village and community organizations—and folk religion. A glossary with Japanese characters is included in the index.

Author : A D Hail
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230434261
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan and Its Rescue; a Brief Sketch of the Geography, History, Religion and Evangelization of Japan written by A D Hail and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... GEOGRAPHICAL. /'in the study of a nation's life men bring with them different motives. The merchant has a commercial, the soldier a military, the naturalist a scientific and the politician a political interest in each country. Thus the attitude of each one toward another land is determined by the standpoint from which it is regarded.. The Christian considers every country from the point of view of Christ's command to evangelize the world.. /The discovery of Japan was no exception to this rule. The great Venitian traveler, Marco Polo, in thethirteenth century, at the Co-urt of Kublai Khan, in. China, heard for the first time of Chi-pan-gu (Japan). His graphic description of its beauty, its wealth and its people, awakened a deep interest in Europe. This interest was reawakened by Pinto who came to Japan in 1542. The Portugese fitted out commercial ships to take advantage of the discovery. Columbus sailed on a voyage of exploration and supposed that in the island of Cuba, now of such living interest to us, he had found the far away land of gilt and gold. It even awakened the pen of the poet and prompted one to sing of it: "But what of earth is still from thee concealed, Until that period of futurity, When all the globe contains shall be revealed; Pass not unmarked the islands in the sea, Where nature claims the most celebrity. Half-hidden, stretching in a lengthened line In front of China, which its guide shall be, Japan abounds in mines of silver fine And shall enlightened be by holy faith divine." The Spanish took a deep religious interest in the islands and were alert to their conversion to the Koman Catholic faith. Our interest in the land is likewise a religious one. It is important on this account also to consider it from its physical...

Author : Joseph M. Kitagawa
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231515092
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion in Japanese History written by Joseph M. Kitagawa and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1990-11-21 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing Japan's religions from the Hein Period through the middle ages and into modernity, this book explores the unique establishment of Shinto, Buddhism, and Confucianism in Japan, as well as the later influence of Roman Catholicism, and the problem of Restoration--both spiritual and material--following World War II.

Author : Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824820817
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Mandalas written by Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1998-11-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first broad study of Japanese mandalas to appear in a Western language, this volume interprets mandalas as sanctified realms where identification between the human and the sacred occurs. The author investigates eighth- to seventeenth-century paintings from three traditions: Esoteric Buddhism, Pure Land Buddhism, and the kami-worshipping (Shinto) tradition. It is generally recognized that many of these mandalas are connected with texts and images from India and the Himalayas. A pioneering theme of this study is that, in addition to the South Asian connections, certain paradigmatic Japanese mandalas reflect pre-Buddhist Chinese concepts, including geographical concepts. In convincing and lucid prose, ten Grotenhuis chronicles an intermingling of visual, doctrinal, ritual, and literary elements in these mandalas that has come to be seen as characteristic of the Japanese religious tradition as a whole. This beautifully illustrated work begins in the first millennium B.C.E. in China with an introduction to the Book of Documents and ends in present-day Japan at the sacred site of Kumano. Ten Grotenhuis focuses on the Diamond and Womb World mandalas of Esoteric Buddhist tradition, on the Taima mandala and other related mandalas from the Pure Land Buddhist tradition, and on mandalas associated with the kami-worshipping sites of Kasuga and Kumano. She identifies specific sacred places in Japan with sacred places in India and with Buddhist cosmic diagrams. Through these identifications, the realm of the buddhas is identified with the realms of the kami and of human beings, and Japanese geographical areas are identified with Buddhist sacred geography. Explaining why certain fundamental Japanese mandalas look the way they do and how certain visual forms came to embody the sacred, ten Grotenhuis presents works that show a complex mixture of Indian Buddhist elements, pre-Buddhist Chinese elements, Chinese Buddhist elements, and indigenous Japanese elements.

Author : Rex Shelley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Japan written by Rex Shelley and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the geography, history, religious beliefs, government, and people of Japan.

Author : Barbara Ambros
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684174694
Total Pages : 360 pages
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Download or read book Emplacing a Pilgrimage written by Barbara Ambros and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Towering over the Kanto Plain, the sacred mountain Ōyama (literally, “Big Mountain”) has loomed large over the religious landscape of early modern Japan.By the Edo period (1600–1868), the revered peak had undergone a transformation from secluded spiritual retreat to popular pilgrimage destination. Its status as a regional landmark among its devotees was boosted by its proximity to the shogunal capital and the wide appeal of its amalgamation of Buddhism, Shinto, mountain asceticism, and folk beliefs. The influence of the Ōyama cult—the intersecting beliefs, practices, and infrastructure associated with the sacred site—was not lost on the ruling Tokugawa shogunate, which saw in the pilgrimage an opportunity to reinforce the communal ideals and social structures that the authorities espoused.Barbara Ambros provides a detailed narrative history of the mountain and its place in contemporary society and popular religion by focusing on the development of the Ōyama cult and its religious, political, and socioeconomic contexts. Richly illustrated and carefully researched, this study emphasizes the importance of “site” or “region” in considering the multifaceted nature and complex history of religious practice in Tokugawa Japan."