Pilgrimages and Spiritual Quests in Japan

Pilgrimages and Spiritual Quests in Japan
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 366
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ISBN-10 : 9781134350452
ISBN-13 : 1134350457
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Download or read book Pilgrimages and Spiritual Quests in Japan written by Peter Ackermann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting new book is a detailed examination of pilgrimages in Japan, including the meanings of travel, transformation, and the discovery of identity through encounters with the sacred, in a variety of interesting dimensions in both historical and contemporary Japanese culture, linked by the unifying theme of a spiritual quest. Several fascinating new approaches to traditional forms of pilgrimage are put forward by a wide range of specialists in anthropology, religion and cultural studies, who set Japanese pilgrimage in a wider comparative perspective. They apply models of pilgrimage to quests for vocational fulfilment, examining cases as diverse as the civil service, painting and poetry, and present ethnographies of contemporary reconstructions of old spiritual quests, as conflicting (and sometimes global) demands impinge on the time and space of would-be pilgrims.


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