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Matsuri and Religion: Complexity, Continuity, and Creativity in Japanese Festivals

Matsuri and Religion: Complexity, Continuity, and Creativity in Japanese Festivals

Paperback

BuddhismGeneral SociologyShintoism

ISBN10: 9004466525
ISBN13: 9789004466524
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jul 23 2021
Pages: 316
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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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