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Spiritual Therapies in Japan |
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Gaitanidis, Ioannis
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| Source |
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
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| Volume | v.39 n.2 |
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| Date | 2012 |
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| Pages | 353 - 385 |
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| Publisher | Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture=南山宗教文化研究所 |
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http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/
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| Location | 名古屋, 日本 [Nagoya, Japan] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Ioannis Gaitanidis is a postdoctoral researcher at Kokugakuin University and an associate researcher at the White Rose East Asia Centre(University of Leeds and Sheffield). |
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| Keyword | spiritual; healing; new religions; nihonjinron; self-cultivation; Ehara Hiroyuki |
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| Abstract | As the media-driven “spiritual boom” that hit Japan in the last decade starts
to fade away, the therapies that this phenomenon popularized among fans
of everything termed “spiritual” continue to be carried out in small circles of practitioners and their most fervent clients. This article places these “spiritual therapies” within the long history of healing rites in Japan by showing that their current appeal can be explained by two factors. First, these therapies are conspicuously similar to techniques used by New Religious Movements in Japan. Secondly, the cultural criticism promoted by these therapies remains characteristic of modern occult theories and practices and has only been readapted today to suit the peculiar symbolic vacuum of post-Aum Japanese society. Finally, the author focuses on the self-cultivation element that remains central in Japanese healing methods, and argues that spiritual therapies seem to have simplified self-cultivation to such an extent that they reinforce a generalized discourse about ethnicity and about whose way of life (Japanese or American) is best suited to a Japanese clientèle. |
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| ISSN | 03041042 (P) |
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| Hits | 548 |
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| Created date | 2013.04.16 |
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| Modified date | 2017.09.14 |
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