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Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan
Author Moerman, D. Max
Date2006
PublisherHarvard University Asia Center
Publisher Url http://asiacenter.harvard.edu/
LocationCambridge, MA, US [劍橋, 麻薩諸塞州, 美國]
Content type書籍=Book
Language英文=English
AbstractAlthough located far from the populated centres of traditional Japan, the three Kumano shrines occupied a central position in the Japanese religious landscape. This book studies Kumano not only as a site of practice, but also as a place of the imagination and a topic of literary and artistic representation.
Table of contentsSituating Kumano --
The place and path of Kumano pilgrimage --
Institutional and economic structures --
Picturing Kumano --
Structure and agenda --
Emplacements --
The land of origins --
Sites of asceticism --
Translocated genealogies --
Multiple paradises --
Esoteric cartographies --
Institutional portraits --
Mortuary practices --
Suicide and salvation --
Funereal pilgrimage --
Return passage --
Memorial rites --
The theater of state --
The political landscape --
Imperial progress and Institutional growth --
Religious politics and Buddhist Kingship paradises future and past --
A woman's place --
Gender and the ambiguities of enlightenment --
Female trouble --
Exclusion and transgression --
Buddhist matriarchies --
A second genesis --
A hell of one's own.
ISBN9780674013957
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Created date2015.03.03



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