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ISBN | 9780824890131 |
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Autor | Carter Caleb Swift |
Wydawca | Univ Of Hawaii Pr |
Język | english |
Oprawa | Pevná vazba |
Rok wydania | 2022 |
Liczba stron | 277 |
Japan's tradition of Shugendō
has long been an object of fascination and intrigue among scholars and the general public, yet its historical development remains an enigma. A Path into the Mountains offers a provocative reexamination of the complex social, economic, and spiritual terrain from which this mountain religious system arose. Caleb Carter traces Shugendō
through the mountains of Togakushi in Nagano Prefecture, while situating it within the broader religious landscape of medieval and early modern Japan. His is the first major study to approach Shugendō
as a self-conscious religious system--something that was historically emergent but conceptually distinct from the prevailing Buddhist orders of medieval Japan. Beyond the case of Shugendō
, this book rethinks a range of issues in the history of Japanese religions, including exclusionary policies toward women, the formation of Shintō
, and religion at the social and geographical margins of the Japanese archipelago.