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A Path into the Mountains: Shugendo and Mount Togakushi - Couverture souple

Carter, Caleb Swift

 
9780824893101: A Path into the Mountains: Shugendo and Mount Togakushi
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0824893107 ISBN 13 : 9780824893101
Editeur : University of Hawai'i Press, 2023

Synopsis

Shugendō has been an object of fascination among scholars and the general public, yet its historical development remains an enigma. This book offers a provocative reexamination of the social, economic, and spiritual terrain from which this mountain religious system arose. Caleb Carter traces Shugendō through the mountains of Togakushi (Nagano Prefecture), while situating it within the religious landscape of medieval and early modern Japan. His is the first major study to view Shugendō as a self-conscious religious system--something that was historically emergent but conceptually distinct from the prevailing Buddhist orders of medieval Japan. Beyond Shugendō, his work rethinks a range of issues in the history of Japanese religions, including exclusionary policies toward women, the formation of Shintō, and religion at the social and geographical margins of the Japanese archipelago.

Carter takes a new tack in the study of religions by tracking three recurrent and intersecting elements--institution, ritual, and narrative. Examination of origin accounts, temple records, gazetteers, and iconography from Togakushi demonstrates how practitioners implemented storytelling, new rituals and festivals, and institutional measures to merge Shugendō with their mountain's culture while establishing social legitimacy and economic security. Indicative of early modern trends, the case of Mount Togakushi reveals how Shugendō moved from a patchwork of regional communities into a translocal system of national scope, eventually becoming Japan's signature mountain religion.

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À propos de l'auteur

Caleb Swift Carter is associate professor of Japanese religions and Buddhist studies in the Faculty of Humanities, Kyushu University.

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Éditeur
University of Hawai'i Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0824893107
ISBN 13 
9780824893101
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
264
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Personne responsable
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