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Dead Matter and Living Memory: Three Ways of Looking at the Higashi Honganji Hair Ropes |
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Curley, Melissa Anne-Marie (著)
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Japanese Religions=日本の諸宗教
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| Volume | v.43 n.1&2 Spring and Fall |
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| Date | 2018 |
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| Pages | 97 - 120 |
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| Publisher | NCC Center for the Study of Japanese Religions=NCC宗教研究所 |
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https://ncc-j.org/
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| Location | 京都, 日本 [Kyoto, 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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| Keyword | hair; Higashi Honganji; Pure Land Buddhism; labor; relics; women |
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| Abstract | This article examines Higashi Honganji’s famous hair ropes in the context of shifting understandings around the place of the material body in religion. It suggests that the ropes drew on a premodern religious repertoire in which hair was recognized as a material form of both personality and generative power; hair donation thus allowed female donors to incorporate themselves into the space of the temple by participating in its construction. It presents the temple as using the ropes in a variety of ways to distinguish that sacred space from the disenchanted world of the modern marketplace. Finally, it argues that modernist understandings of religion as properly disembodied have shaped contemporary efforts to deemphasize the materiality of the ropes, effacing the presence of the bodies of female donors in the process. |
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| Table of contents | Good hair and bad hair 99
Seeing the hair ropes as bodily relics 101
Seeing the hair ropes as ritual tools 106
Sending the hair ropes overseas 108
Sanitizing the hair rope 111
Seeing the invisible hair rope 114
What the sightseers saw 115
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| ISSN | 04488954 (P) |
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| Hits | 191 |
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| Created date | 2022.05.17 |
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| Modified date | 2022.05.17 |
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