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Sacred Heritage in Japan

Sacred Heritage in Japan

Rots, Aike P.
Teeuwen, Mark

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Research on Museums and Heritage in Asia

Religion General General ArtJapanese History

ISBN10: 0367217708
ISBN13: 9780367217709
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 16 2020
Pages: 210
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Sacred Heritage in Japan is the first volume to explicitly address the topics of Japanese religion and heritage preservation in connection with each other.

The book examines what happens when places of worship and ritual practices are rebranded as national culture. It also considers the impact of being designated tangible or intangible cultural properties and, more recently, as UNESCO World or Intangible Heritage. Drawing on primary ethnographic and historical research, the contributions to this volume show the variety of ways in which different actors have contributed to, negotiated, and at times resisted the transformation of religious traditions into heritage. They analyse the conflicts that emerge about questions of signification and authority during these processes of transformation. The book provides important new perspectives on the local implications of UNESCO listings in the Japanese context and showcases the diversity of sacred heritage in present-day Japan.

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