Geography Of Religion In Japan

Author : Keisuke Matsui
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9784431545507

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Geography of Religion in Japan by Keisuke Matsui Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Japan
ISBN : UVA:X001280698

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Japan and Its Rescue by A. D. Hail Pdf

Author : Vasiliĭ Mikhaĭlovich Golovnin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : Japan
ISBN : MINN:31951002000679Y

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Recollections of Japan by Vasiliĭ Mikhaĭlovich Golovnin Pdf

Author : A D Hail
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230434267

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Japan and Its Rescue; a Brief Sketch of the Geography, History, Religion and Evangelization of Japan by A D Hail Pdf

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 : Ichiro Hori
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226353340

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Folk Religion in Japan by Ichiro Hori Pdf

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 : Rex Shelley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Japan
ISBN : OCLC:1035927184

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Japan by Rex Shelley Pdf

Introduces the geography, history, religious beliefs, government, and people of Japan.

Author : Joseph M. Kitagawa
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1990-11-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 023151509X

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Religion in Japanese History by Joseph M. Kitagawa Pdf

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 : D. Max Moerman
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824890056

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The Japanese Buddhist World Map by D. Max Moerman Pdf

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 : A. D. Hail
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1343230349

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Japan and Its Rescue by A. D. Hail Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : George Psalmanazar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1704
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : NKP:1003297771

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AN HISTORICAL and GEOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF FORMOSA, AN Island Subject to the Emperor of JAPAN by George Psalmanazar Pdf

Author : Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:638759407

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Religion in Japanese History by Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Geography
ISBN : UOM:39015080610275

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Geographical Review of Japan by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998-11-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 0824820819

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Japanese Mandalas by Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis Pdf

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 : Lucrezia Lopez
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031322099

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Geography of World Pilgrimages by Lucrezia Lopez Pdf

This book points out how pilgrimage studies rely on interdisciplinary academic interests, being always more determined by anthropological, social, cultural and economic factors. The volume gathers interdisciplinary contributions revealing different approaches and academic interests when researching pilgrimage. Finally, the proposal introduces a comparative international breath to reflect upon such complex phenomenon that since Antiquity still impregnates the history of human being across the world. As pilgrimage studies are closely related to mobility issues, how the contemporary mobile world is altering and re-signifying pilgrimage dynamics and meanings will also be discussed in detail. The term “pilgrimage” evokes key concepts deriving from different fields, all of them collected in the final glossary. The primary audience of this work are academics and researchers from different fields involved in pilgrimage studies. The work may also be useful in teaching (advanced) university courses.

Author : D. Max Moerman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781684173990

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Localizing Paradise by D. Max Moerman Pdf

"Although located far from the populated centers of traditional Japan, the three Kumano shrines occupied a central position in the Japanese religious landscape. For centuries Kumano was the most visited pilgrimage site in Japan and attracted devotees from across the boundaries of sect (Buddhist, Daoist, Shinto), class, and gender. It was also a major institutional center, commanding networks of affiliated shrines, extensive landholdings, and its own army, and a site of production, generating agricultural products and symbolic capital in the form of spiritual values. Kumano was thus both a real place and a utopia: a non-place of paradise or enlightenment. It was a location in which cultural ideals—about death, salvation, gender, and authority—were represented, contested, and even at times inverted.This book encompasses both the real and the ideal, both the historical and the ideological, Kumano. It studies Kumano not only as a site of practice, a stage for the performance of asceticism and pilgrimage, but also as a place of the imagination, a topic of literary and artistic representation. Kumano was not unique in combining Buddhism with native traditions, for redefining death and its conquest, for expressing the relationship between religious and political authority, and for articulating the religious position of women. By studying Kumano’s particular religious landscape, we can better understand the larger, common religious landscape of premodern Japan."