Agents of World Renewal : The Rise of Yonaoshi Gods in Japan /

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This volume examines a category of Japanese divinities that centered on the concept of "world renewal" (yonaoshi). In the latter half of the Tokugawa period (1603-1867), a number of entities, both natural and supernatural, came to be worshipped as "gods of world renewal." These i...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miura, Takashi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2019]
Temas:
Gods, Japanese.
RELIGION / Eastern.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Emergence of a Yonaoshi God: The Apotheosis of Sano Masakoto in 1784
  • Chapter 2. The Rush Hour of Yonaoshi Gods: Late Tokugawa Peasant Uprisings and the Logic of World Renewal
  • Chapter 3. Tokugawa Bureaucrats Deified as Yonaoshi Gods: Egawa Hidetatsu and Suzuki Chikara
  • Chapter 4. Upholding a Catfish as a Yonaoshi God: The Earthquake Catfish of the 1855 Ansei Edo Earthquake
  • Chapter 5. Yonaoshi Gods Falling from the Sky: Rethinking Ee ja nai ka as a Communal Religious Celebration
  • Chapter 6. An Illusion of a Yonaoshi God: The Chichibu Incident of 1884
  • Chapter 7. A Universal Yonaoshi God from the Northeast: Ushitora no Konjin and Ōmoto's Hinagata Millenarianism
  • Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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