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Assembling Shinto: Buddhist Approaches to Kami Worship in Medieval Japan
Author Andreeva, Anna (著)
VolumeSpring
Date2017.04.10
Pages420
PublisherHarvard University Press
Publisher Url https://www.hup.harvard.edu/
LocationCambridge, MA, US [劍橋, 麻薩諸塞州, 美國]
SeriesHarvard East Asian Monographs
Series No.396
Content type書籍=Book
Language英文=English
NoteAnna Andreeva is a Research Fellow at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context,” Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.
AbstractDuring the late twelfth to fourteenth centuries, several precursors of what is now commonly known as Shinto came together for the first time. By focusing on Mt. Miwa in present-day Nara Prefecture and examining the worship of indigenous deities (kami) that emerged in its proximity, this book serves as a case study of the key stages of “assemblage” through which this formative process took shape. Previously unknown rituals, texts, and icons featuring kami, all of which were invented in medieval Japan under the strong influence of esoteric Buddhism, are evaluated using evidence from local and translocal ritual and pilgrimage networks, changing land ownership patterns, and a range of religious ideas and practices. These stages illuminate the medieval pedigree of Ryōbu Shintō (kami ritual worship based loosely on esoteric Buddhism’s Two Mandalas), a major precursor to modern Shinto.

In analyzing the key mechanisms for “assembling” medieval forms of kami worship, Andreeva challenges the twentieth-century master narrative of Shinto as an unbroken, monolithic tradition. By studying how and why groups of religious practitioners affiliated with different cultic sites and religious institutions responded to esoteric Buddhism’s teachings, this book demonstrates that kami worship in medieval Japan was a result of complex negotiations.
Table of contentsList of Maps, Plates, and Figures
Acknowledgments
Note to the Reader
Abbreviations
Introduction
I. Mt. Miwa and the Yamato Landscape
1. The Ancient Cultic Site
2. Temple Networks in Southern Yamato
II. Holy Men and Buddhist Monks at Miwa
3. Miwa Bessho
4. Saidaiji
5. From Ise to Miwa and Beyond
III. Assembling Shinto
6. Enlightenment for the “Country Bumpkins”
7. Miwa-ryū Shintō
Conclusion
Chinese and Japanese Names and Terms
Bibliography
Index
ISBN9780674970571 (hc)
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