Spirits and animism in contemporary Japan : the invisible empire /
"This book draws attention to a striking aspect of contemporary Japanese culture: the pervasive nature of discussions and representations of "spirits" (tama or tamashii). Ancestor cults have played a central role in Japanese culture and religion for many centuries; in recent decades,...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2019.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Changing images of the world after death / Sato Hiroo
- The mystical "occident", or the vibrations of "modernity" in the mirror of Japanese thought / Jason A. Josephson-Storm
- A metaphysics of the invisible realm: Minakata Kumagusu on spirits, molds, and the cosmic mandala / Fabio Rambelli
- New religious movements, the media, and "Japanese animism" / Ioannis Gaitanidis
- Animated city: life force, guardians, and contemporary architecture in Kyoto / Ellen Van Goethem
- Essays in vagueness: aspects of diffuse religiosity in Japan / Carina Roth
- Came back hounded: a spectrum of experiences with spirits and Inugami possession in contemporary Japan / Andrea de Antoni
- The spirit(s) of modern Japanese fiction / Rebecca Suter
- Techno-animism: Japanese media artists and their Buddhist and Shinto legacy / Mauro Arrighi
- Spirit/medium: critically examining the relationship between animism and animation / Jolyon Thomas
- From your name to Shin-Gojira: spiritual crisscrossing, spatial soteriology, and catastrophic identity in contemporary Japanese visual culture / Andrea Castiglioni.