Founding Territorial Cults In Early Japan
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Founding Territorial Cults In Early Japan
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Author : G. Domenig
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-12-11
Founding Territorial Cults In Early Japan written by G. Domenig and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-11 with History categories.
The first book that deals with the territorial cults of early Japan by focusing on how such cults were founded in ownerless regions. Numerous ancient Japanese myths and legends are discussed to show that the typical founding ritual was a two-phase ritual that turned the territory into a horizontal microcosm, complete with its own ‘terrestrial heaven’ inhabited by local deities. Reversing Mircea Eliade’s popular thesis, the author concludes that the concept of the human-made horizontal microcosm is not a reflection but the source of the religious concept of the macrocosm with gods dwelling high up in the sky. The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
History Memory And Territorial Cults In The Highlands Of Laos
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Author : Pierre Petit
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-11-05
History Memory And Territorial Cults In The Highlands Of Laos written by Pierre Petit and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-05 with Social Science categories.
This book captures the dynamics of history, memory, and territorial cults in Houay Yong, a Tai Vat village situated in the multiethnic highland frontier between Laos and Vietnam. By taking seriously the experiences of the villagers, it partakes in a broader movement to reintegrate highlanders and their agency into history at large. Based on comprehensive fieldwork research and the examination of colonial archives, this book makes accessible, for an English-speaking audience, untapped French archives on Laos and early publications on territorial cults written by French ethnologists. In so doing, it provides a balanced perspective, drawing from the fields of memory studies and classical historical research. Following a chronological approach stretching from the nineteenth century to the present, it extends narrative analysis through a comparative ethnography of territorial cults, a key component of the performative and material presentification of the past. Highly interdisciplinary in nature, History, Memory and Territorial Cults in the Highlands of Laos will be useful to students and scholars of anthropology, history, and religious studies, as well as Asian culture and society.
Not Seeing Snow Mus Soseki And Medieval Japanese Zen
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Author : Molly Vallor
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-08-26
Not Seeing Snow Mus Soseki And Medieval Japanese Zen written by Molly Vallor and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-26 with History categories.
Not Seeing Snow examines the life, thought, poetry, and garden design of influential Zen monk Musō Soseki.
Weaving And Binding
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Author : Michael Como
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2009-09-02
Weaving And Binding written by Michael Como and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-02 with History categories.
Among the most exciting developments in the study of Japanese religion over the past two decades has been the discovery of tens of thousands of ritual vessels, implements, and scapegoat dolls (hitogata) from the Nara (710-784) and early Heian (794-1185) periods. Because inscriptions on many of the items are clearly derived from Chinese rites of spirit pacification, it is now evident that previous scholarship has mischaracterized the role of Buddhism in early Japanese religion. Weaving and Binding makes a compelling argument that both the Japanese royal system and the Japanese Buddhist tradition owe much to continental rituals centered on the manipulation of yin and yang, animal sacrifice, and spirit quelling. Building on these recent archaeological discoveries, Michael Como charts an epochal transformation in the religious culture of the Japanese islands, tracing the transmission and development of fundamental paradigms of religious practice to immigrant lineages and deities from the Korean peninsula. In addition to archaeological materials, Como makes extensive use of a wide range of textual sources from across Asia, including court chronicles, poetry collections, gazetteers, temple records, and divinatory texts. As he investigates the influence of myths, legends, and rites of the ancient Chinese festival calendar on religious practice across the Japanese islands, Como shows how the ability of immigrant lineages to propitiate hostile deities led to the creation of elaborate networks of temple-shrine complexes that shaped later sectarian Shinto as well as popular understandings of the relationship between the buddhas and the gods of Japan. For much of the book, this process is examined through rites and legends from the Chinese calendar that were related to weaving, sericulture, and medicine—technologies that to a large degree were controlled by lineages with roots in the Korean peninsula and that claimed female deities and weaving maidens as founding ancestors. Como’s examination of a series of ancient Japanese legends of female immortals, weaving maidens, and shamanesses reveals that female deities played a key role in the moving of technologies and ritual practices from peripheral regions in Kyushu and elsewhere into central Japan and the heart of the imperial cult. As a result, some of the most important building blocks of the purportedly native Shinto tradition were to a remarkable degree shaped by the ancestral cults of immigrant lineages and popular Korean and Chinese religious practices. This is a provocative and innovative work that upsets the standard interpretation of early historical religion in Japan, revealing a complex picture of continental cultic practice both at court and in the countryside.
The Gates Of Power
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Author : Mikael S. Adolphson
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2000-07-01
The Gates Of Power written by Mikael S. Adolphson and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-07-01 with History categories.
The political influence of temples in premodern Japan, most clearly manifested in divine demonstrations—where rowdy monks and shrine servants brought holy symbols to the capital to exert pressure on courtiers—has traditionally been condemned and is poorly understood. In an impressive examination of this intriguing aspect of medieval Japan, the author employs a wide range of previously neglected sources to argue that religious protest was a symptom of political factionalism in the capital rather than its cause. It is his contention that religious violence can be traced primarily to attempts by secular leaders to rearrange religious and political hierarchies to their own advantage, thereby leaving disfavored religious institutions to fend for their accustomed rights and status. In this context, divine demonstrations became the preferred negotiating tool for monastic complexes. For almost three centuries, such strategies allowed a handful of elite temples to maintain enough of an equilibrium to sustain and defend the old style of rulership even against the efforts of the Ashikaga Shogunate in the mid-fourteenth century. By acknowledging temples and monks as legitimate co-rulers, The Gates of Power provides a new synthesis of Japanese rulership from the late Heian (794–1185) to the early Muromachi (1336–1573) eras, offering a unique and comprehensive analysis that brings together the spheres of art, religion, ideas, and politics in medieval Japan.
A History Of Japan To 1334
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Author : Sir George Bailey Sansom
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1958
A History Of Japan To 1334 written by Sir George Bailey Sansom and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with History categories.
Explains the structure of the feudal society, describes the rise of economic life and tells of the impact of Commodore Perry's arrival in 1853. Bibliographical notes
Buddhist Statecraft In East Asia
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Author : Stephanie Balkwill
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-03-28
Buddhist Statecraft In East Asia written by Stephanie Balkwill and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-28 with Religion categories.
Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia explores the long relationship between Buddhism and the state in premodern times and seeks to counter the modern, secularist notion that Buddhism, as a religion, is inherently apolitical. By revealing the methods by which members of Buddhist communities across premodern East Asia related to imperial rule, this volume offers case studies of how Buddhists, their texts, material culture, ideas, and institutions legitimated rulers and defended regimes across the region. The volume also reveals a history of Buddhist writing, protest, and rebellion against the state. Contributors are Stephanie Balkwill, James A. Benn, Megan Bryson, Gregory N. Evon, Geoffrey C. Goble, Richard D. McBride II, and Jacqueline I. Stone.
The Historical Study Of African Religion
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Author : Terence O. Ranger
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1976
The Historical Study Of African Religion written by Terence O. Ranger and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Religion categories.
The World Archaeological Congress 1 7 September 1986 Southampton And London Archaeological Objectivity In Interpretation 3 V
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
The World Archaeological Congress 1 7 September 1986 Southampton And London Archaeological Objectivity In Interpretation 3 V written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Anthropology, Prehistoric categories.
Archaeological Objectivity In Interpretation
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Archaeological Objectivity In Interpretation written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Archaeology categories.