TY  - BOOK
AU  - Porcu,Elisabetta
AU  - Foster,Michael Dylan
TI  - Matsuri and religion: complexity, continuity, and creativity in Japanese festivals 
SN  - 9004466541
AV  - GT4884.A2 M38 2020
U1  - 394.26952 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Festivals
KW  - Japan
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Religion and sociology
KW  - Fêtes
KW  - Japon
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Sociologie religieuse
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1. Introduction. Matsuri and Religion in Japan / Michael Dylan Foster, Elisabetta Porcu -- 2. Displaying Mythological Characters: Changes in the Meanings of Decorations in the Sawara Grand Festival in Chiba, Japan / Tsukahara Shinji -- 3. Gion Matsuri in Kyoto: A Multilayered Religious Phenomenon / Elisabetta Porcu -- 4. Sannō Matsuri: Fabricating Festivals in Modern Japan / John Breen -- 5. Eloquent Plasticity: Vernacular Religion, Change, and Namahage / Michael Dylan Foster -- 6. Kuma Matsuri: Bear Hunters as Intermediaries between Humans and Nature / Scott Schnell -- 7. Fire, Prayer, and Purification: Early Winter Events and Folk Beliefs in Kyoto / Yagi Tōru -- 8. Encounters with the Past / Fractals and Atmospheres at Kasuga Wakamiya Onmatsuri / Andrea Giolai -- 9. Demographic Change in Contemporary Rural Japan and Its Impact on Ritual Practices / Susanne Klien -- 10. Photographic Essay: Secret Eroticism and Lived Religion: The Art of Matsuri Photography / Michael Dylan Foster, Ogano Minoru -- Index
N2  - Bringing together the innovative work of scholars from a variety of disciplines, Matsuri and Religion explores festivals in Japan through their interconnectedness to religious life in both urban and rural communities. Each chapter, informed by extensive ethnographic engagement, focuses on a specific festival to unpack the role of religion in collective ritualized activities. With attention to contemporary performance and historical transformation, the study sheds light on understandings of change, identity and community, as well as questions regarding intangible cultural heritage, tourism, and the intersection of religion with politics. Read as a whole, the volume provides a uniquely multi-sited ethnographic, historical, and theoretical study, contributing to discourses on religion and festival/ritual/performance in Japan and elsewhere around the globe
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