Ellen Schattschneider

Immortal Wishes

Labor and Transcendence on a Japanese Sacred Mountain

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Produktbeschreibung

"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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 153mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780822330752
• ISBN-10: 082233075X
• Artikelnr.: 21984211

Autorenporträt

Ellen Schattschneider, Brandeis University

Inhaltsangabe

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