"Ellen Schattschneider has given us an account of Japanese religious experience that is at once powerfully evocative and analytically sophisticated. "Immortal Wishes" is a remarkable book that should prove invaluable not only for students of Japan but also for anyone wanting to understand the transformative power of religious experience."--Bradd Shore, Emory University
"Ellen Schattschneider has given us an account of Japanese religious experience that is at once powerfully evocative and analytically sophisticated. "Immortal Wishes" is a remarkable book that should prove invaluable not only for students of Japan but also for anyone wanting to understand the transformative power of religious experience."--Bradd Shore, Emory University
Acknowledgments ix Note on Conventions xiii Introduction: Labor and Transcendence 1 1. Predicaments of History: Ritual Life on a Japanese Periphery 19 2. Between Worlds: Akakura's Architecture of Potential Transformation 46 3. Labor and Rebirth: Cosmological Kinship in the Annual Ritual Cycle 86 4. Miniature Mountains: Offerings and Exchange 121 5. My Mother's Garden: Ascetic Discipline on the Mountain 145 6. I am the Mirror: The Political Dimensions of Representational Action 173 Conclusion 210 Appendix: Guide to Persons Mentioned in the Text 231 Notes 233 Bibliography 251 Index 263
Acknowledgments ix Note on Conventions xiii Introduction: Labor and Transcendence 1 1. Predicaments of History: Ritual Life on a Japanese Periphery 19 2. Between Worlds: Akakura's Architecture of Potential Transformation 46 3. Labor and Rebirth: Cosmological Kinship in the Annual Ritual Cycle 86 4. Miniature Mountains: Offerings and Exchange 121 5. My Mother's Garden: Ascetic Discipline on the Mountain 145 6. I am the Mirror: The Political Dimensions of Representational Action 173 Conclusion 210 Appendix: Guide to Persons Mentioned in the Text 231 Notes 233 Bibliography 251 Index 263
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