Ritual practice in modern Japan ordering place, people, and action
National surveys indicate that most Japanese, while professing no religious commitment, frequently perform rituals. Based on 14 months of fieldwork in Kamakura city near Tokyo, Satsuki Kawano examines the power of ritual and its relevance for modern urbanites.
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Honolulu
Univ. of Hawaii Press
2005
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Kami, Buddhas, and ancestors
- Embodying moral order: acting bodies and the power of ritual
- Emplacing moral order : ritual and everyday environments
- Constructing Kamakura in everyday life and city festivals
- The Sakae festival
- Reconsidering ritual.