Hirochika Nakamaki

Japanese Religions at Home and Abroad

Anthropological Perspectives

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the reasons for historical changes and regional differences in Japanese religion. It also examines Japanese religions among communities abroad, exploring the role of religion in defining Japanese identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 160mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9780415406215
• ISBN-10: 0415406218
• Artikelnr.: 23182277

Autorenporträt

Hirochika Nakamaki is Professor and Director of the Department of Advanced Studies Ethnology at the National Museum of Ethnology, Japan. He has conducted research on Japanese religions in Hawaii, California and Brazil as well as in Japan. He has edited The Culture of Association and Associations in Contemporary Japanese Society (2002), and co-edited Japanese Civilization in the Modern World VI Religion (1990) and Possessao e Procissao: Religiosidade Popular no Brasil (1994).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. At Home 1. A Consumer's Perspective of Religious Habitat
Segregation in Japan 2. The Dialectics of Japanese Religious Thought and
Organisation 3. Modern Japanese Religions from the Perspective of
Civilisation Studies' 4. The Symbolic Analysis' of a Shinto Festival 5.
Continuity and Change' in Japanese Funeral Customs 6. Metaphors of
Initiation and Pilgrimage in Japan Part II. Abroad 7. Ecological and
Immunological Aspects of Japanese Buddhism in the Americas 8. Ethnic
Identity' and Japanese Christian Churches in the USA 9. The Life History of
a Japanese Buddhist Leader in Brazil 10. Perfect Liberty Kyodan as a
Multinational Enterprise