Religion in Japan : arrows to Heaven and earth / edited by P. F. Kornicki and I. J. McMullen.
By: Kornicki, Peter F. (Peter Francis)
Contributor(s): McMullen, Ian James
Language: English Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1996.Description: xxvi, 315, [4]p. of col. plates : front, ill., drawings, photos, tables ; 24cm.ISBN: 0521550289Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | British Museum | Royal Anthropological Institute | Open Shelves | KWV [KOR-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | L66725 |
Includes bibl. references. - This book of essays honours Carmen Blacker, bibl. of her work: p. xxii-xxiii.
Contents: Notes on the Kuji / D. Waterhouse; The worship of Confucius in ancient Japan / J. McCullen; An early anthropologist? Oe no Masafusa'a: a record of fox spirits / I. Smits; Religion in the life of Minamoto Yoritomo and the early Kamakura bakufu / M. Collcutt; Rethinking Japanese folk religion: a study of Kumano Shugen / Miyake Hitoshi; Keeping the faith: bakuhan policy towards religions in seventeenth-century Japan / P. Nosco; Heavenly affinities and discrepancies: Fr Leturdu's early ethnographic account of Okinawa (1846-1848) / P. Beillevaire; Accommodating the alien: Okuni Takamasa and the religion of the Lord of Heaven / J. Breen; Shinmeiaishinkai and the study of shamanism in contemporary Japanese religious life / H. Hardacre; The Ainu iyomande and its evolution / F. Maraini; Mizuko kuyo: the re-production of the dead in contemporary Japan / E.G. Harrison; Pilgrimage as cult: the Shikoku pilgrimage as a window on Japanese religion.