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Matsuri and religion : complexity, continuity, and creativity in Japanese festivals / edited by Elisabetta Porcu, Michael Dylan Foster.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9004466541
  • 9789004466548
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: MATSURI AND RELIGION.DDC classification:
  • 394.26952 23
LOC classification:
  • GT4884.A2 M38 2020
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)3026209

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.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 10, 2021).

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.