The Bloomsbury Handbook of Japanese Religions

Erica Baffelli, Andrea Castiglioni, Professor Fabio Rambelli (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

344 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-22747-7 (ISBN)

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Providing an overview of current cutting-edge research in the field of Japanese religions, this Handbook is the most up-to-date guide to contemporary scholarship in the field. As well as charting innovative research taking place, this book also points to new directions for future research, covering both the modern and pre-modern periods.

Edited by Erica Baffelli, Andrea Castiglioni, and Fabio Rambelli, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Japanese Religions includes essays by international scholars from the USA, Europe, Japan, and New Zealand. Topics and themes include gender, politics, the arts, economy, media, globalization, and colonialism.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Japanese Religions is an essential reference point for upper-level students and scholars of Japanese religions as well as Japanese Studies more broadly.

Erica Baffelli is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. Her publications include Dynamism and the Ageing of a Japanese 'New' Religion (Bloomsbury, 2018). Andrea Castiglioni is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagoya City University, Japan. His publications include Defining Shugendo: Critical Studies on Japanese Mountain Religion (Bloomsbury 2020). Fabio Rambelli is Professor and International Shinto Foundation Chair of Shinto Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, and Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. His publications include The Sea and Sacred in Japan (Bloomsbury, 2018), Spirits and Animism in Contemporary Japan (Bloomsbury, 2019), and Defining Shugendo: Critical Studies on Japanese Mountain Religion (Bloomsbury, 2020). He is the series editor of Bloomsbury Shinto Studies.

1. Introduction, Erica Baffelli (University of Manchester, UK), Andrea Castiglioni (Nagoya City University, Japan) and Fabio Rambelli (University of California, Santa Barbara, US)
2. Chaplaincy in Japan, Kasai Kenta (Sophia University, Tokyo)
3. Cultural Heritage, Lindsey DeWitt (Ghent University, Belgium)
4. Disasters, Levi McLaughlin (North Carolina State University, USA)
5. Economy and Spirituality, Ioannis Gaitanidis (Chiba University, Japan)
6. Economy of Buddhism, Jørn Borup, (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Case Study: Buddhist temples of the future: managing survival, Paulina Kolata (University of Chester, UK)
7. Empire and Colonialism, Emily Anderson (Independent Scholar, USA)
Case Study: Aesthetics of Buddhist Modernism, Paride Stortini (University of Chicago, USA)
8. Environmentalism, Aike Rots (Oslo University, Norway)
Case Study: Grassroots Environmental activities in Rissho Koseikai, Aura di Febo (University of Leeds, UK)
9. Food Offerings, Allan G. Grapard (Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
10. Folk Performing arts, Suzuki Masataka (Emeritus, Keio University, Tokyo)
11. Gender, Kawahashi Noriko (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
12. Globalization, Richard Payne (Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley, USA)
Case study Diaspora Buddhism, Jørn Borup (Aarhus University, Denmark)
13. Islam, Komura Akiko (Keio University, Tokyo)
14. Law, Mark Mullins (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
15. Materiality, Halle O’Neal (University of Edinburgh, UK)
16. Media and Technology, Kaitlyn Ugoretz (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) and Erica Baffelli (University of Manchester, UK)
Case study World-Wide Shinto: The Globalization of ‘Japanese’ Religion Kaitlyn Ugoretz (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Case study Robots Kimura Takeshi (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
17. Medicine, Katja Triplett (Leipzig University, Germany)
18. Minorities, Takahashi Norihito (University of Toyo, Japan)
Case Study Daijo Islam (Mahayana Islam) Komura Akiko (Rikkyo University, Japan)
19. “New Religions”, Kato Masato (Tenri Unversity, Japan)
20. Pilgrimages and “Sacred” Geography, Ian Reader (University of Manchester, UK)
21. Politics, Omi Toshihiro (Musashino University, Japan)
Case study Religion, Socialism, and Secularization James Mark Shields (Bucknell University, USA)
22. Premodern traditions, Hayashi Makoto (Aichi Gakuin University, Japan)
23. Sexuality, Ori Porath (University of Chicago, USA)
24. Sound, Fumi Ouchi (Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University, Japan)
Case study The Matsuri as Sonic Event, Andrea Giolai (Leiden University, Netherlands)
25. Space, Tatsuma Padoan (University College Cork, Ireland)
26. Spiritualism and Occultism, Yoshinaga Shin’ichi (Ryukoku University, Japan)
27. Spirituality, Horie Norichika (Tokyo University, Japan)
28. Tourism, Yamanaka Hiroshi (University of Tokyo, Japan)
29. Women, Emily Simpson (Dartmouth College, US)
Case study Mountain Worship and Women, Kobayashi Naoko (Aichi Gakuin University, Japan)
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Erscheinungsdatum	03.11.2022
Reihe/Serie	Bloomsbury Handbooks
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10	1-350-22747-1 / 1350227471
ISBN-13	978-1-350-22747-7 / 9781350227477
Zustand	Neuware