Religion And Tourism In Japan

Author : Ian Reader
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350418854
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Tourism in Japan written by Ian Reader and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Ian Reader presents new insights into the relationship between religion and tourism more generally and into the contemporary religious situation in Japan. He counteracts scholarship that claims tourism increases religious activity, shows that tourism is a factor in increasing secularization in Japan and draws attention to the role of the state in such contexts. Although the Japanese constitution prohibits the state from promoting religion, this book shows how state agencies nonetheless encourage people to visit religious sites, by presenting them as manifestations of a shared heritage, in ways that distance them from 'religion'. Reader examines theoretical understandings of religion and tourism and presents case studies of famed pilgrimage routes and temples. He shows how Zen monasteries are now 'tourist brands' and pilgrimages are the focus of TV entertainment programmes, portrayed as opportunities to eat sweets. Examining the nationalistic rhetoric of nostalgia and unique heritage that underpins the promotion of religious sites, Reader also considers why priests acquiesce in such matters.

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 : Kati Neubauer
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640399889
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mt. Fuji - Religion and Tourism written by Kati Neubauer and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Theology - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,3, Muhlenberg College, course: Religions of Japan, language: English, abstract: Japan's national symbol and most holy sight, Mount Fuji, has always been attractive to pilgrims. Over the years the motivation for a pilgrimage on Mt. Fuji has changed dramatically. From exclusive religious intentions the mountain is open today to sport climbers and tourists as well. This essay discusses how religion and tourism go hand-in-hand starting off from the past on to today's Mt. Fuji, and argues that commerce and religion in fact are not as separate as one would think.

Author : Ian Reader
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350418846
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Tourism in Japan written by Ian Reader and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Ian Reader presents new insights into the relationship between religion and tourism more generally and into the contemporary religious situation in Japan. He counteracts scholarship that claims tourism increases religious activity, shows that tourism is a factor in increasing secularization in Japan and draws attention to the role of the state in such contexts. Although the Japanese constitution prohibits the state from promoting religion, this book shows how state agencies nonetheless encourage people to visit religious sites, by presenting them as manifestations of a shared heritage, in ways that distance them from 'religion'. Reader examines theoretical understandings of religion and tourism and presents case studies of famed pilgrimage routes and temples. He shows how Zen monasteries are now 'tourist brands' and pilgrimages are the focus of TV entertainment programmes, portrayed as opportunities to eat sweets. Examining the nationalistic rhetoric of nostalgia and unique heritage that underpins the promotion of religious sites, Reader also considers why priests acquiesce in such matters.

Author : Peter Ackermann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134350465
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pilgrimages and Spiritual Quests in Japan written by Peter Ackermann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : William Elliot Griffis
Publisher : New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1912 [c1895]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.F7/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Religions of Japan written by William Elliot Griffis and published by New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1912 [c1895]. This book was released on 1912 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Ackermann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134350457
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pilgrimages and Spiritual Quests in Japan written by Peter Ackermann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting new book is a detailed examination of pilgrimages in Japan, including the meanings of travel, transformation, and the discovery of identity through encounters with the sacred, in a variety of interesting dimensions in both historical and contemporary Japanese culture, linked by the unifying theme of a spiritual quest. Several fascinating new approaches to traditional forms of pilgrimage are put forward by a wide range of specialists in anthropology, religion and cultural studies, who set Japanese pilgrimage in a wider comparative perspective. They apply models of pilgrimage to quests for vocational fulfilment, examining cases as diverse as the civil service, painting and poetry, and present ethnographies of contemporary reconstructions of old spiritual quests, as conflicting (and sometimes global) demands impinge on the time and space of would-be pilgrims.

Author : Ian Reader
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134625898
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pilgrimage in the Marketplace written by Ian Reader and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of pilgrimage often centres itself around miracles and spontaneous populist activities. While some of these activities and stories may play an important role in the emergence of potential pilgrimage sites and in helping create wider interest in them, this book demonstrates that the dynamics of the marketplace, including marketing and promotional activities by priests and secular interest groups, create the very consumerist markets through which pilgrimages become established and successful – and through which the ‘sacred’ as a category can be sustained. By drawing on examples from several contexts, including Japan, India, China, Vietnam, Europe, and the Muslim world, author Ian Reader evaluates how pilgrimages may be invented, shaped, and promoted by various interest groups. In so doing he draws attention to the competitive nature of the pilgrimage market, revealing that there are rivalries, borrowed ideas, and alliances with commercial and civil agencies to promote pilgrimages. The importance of consumerism is demonstrated, both in terms of consumer goods/souvenirs and pilgrimage site selection, rather than the usual depictions of consumerism as tawdry disjunctions on the ‘sacred.’ As such this book reorients studies of pilgrimage by highlighting not just the pilgrims who so often dominate the literature, but also the various other interest groups and agencies without whom pilgrimage as a phenomenon would not exist.

Author : Ian Reader
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824813543
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion in Contemporary Japan written by Ian Reader and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1991-04-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What role does religion play in contemporary Japanese society and in the lives of Japanese people today? This text examines the major areas in which the Japanese participate in religious events, the role of religion in the social system and the underlying views within the Japanese religious world. Through a series of case studies of religion in action - at crowded temples and festivals, in austere Zen meditation halls, at home and at work, at dramatic fire rituals - it illustrates the immense variety, energy and colour inherent in Japanese religion. It also discusses the continued relevance and responses of religion in a rapidly modernizing and changing society.

Author : David C. Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317194373
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion in Japanese Daily Life written by David C. Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are Japanese people religious – and, if so, in what ways? David Lewis addresses this question from the perspective of ordinary Japanese people in the context of their life cycles, and explores why they engage in religious activities. He not only discusses how Japanese people engage in different religious practices as they encounter new events in their lives but also analyses the attitudes and motivations behind their behaviour. Activities such as fortune-telling, religious rites in the workplace, ancestral rites and visits to shrines and temples are actually engaged in by many people who view themselves as ‘non- religious’ but express their motivations in terms other than the conventional ‘religious’ ones. This book outlines the religious options available, and assesses why people choose particular religious activities at various times in their lives or in specific circumstances. The author challenges some widespread assumptions about religion in urban and industrial contexts and also shows how some of the underlying motivations behind Japanese behaviour are expressed both in religious and non-religious forms.