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Mountain Mandalas: Shugendō in Kyushu
Author Grapard, Allan G. (著)
Date2016.02.25
Pages320
PublisherBloomsbury Academic
Publisher Url https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/academic/
LocationLondon, UK [倫敦, 英國]
SeriesBloomsbury Shinto studies
Content type書籍=Book
Language英文=English
NoteAllan G. Grapard is Professor Emeritus in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.
AbstractIn Mountain Mandalas Allan G. Grapard provides a thought-provoking history of one aspect of the Japanese Shugendo tradition in Kyushu, by focusing on three cultic systems: Mount Hiko, Usa-Hachiman, and the Kunisaki Peninsula. Grapard draws from a rich range of theorists from the disciplines of geography, history, anthropology, sociology, and humanistic geography and situates the historical terrain of his research within a much larger context.

This book includes detailed analyses of the geography of sacred sites, translations from many original texts, and discussions on rituals and social practices. Grapard studies Mount Hiko and the Kunisaki Peninsula, which was very influential in Japanese cultural and religious history throughout the ages. We are introduced to important information on archaic social structures and their religious traditions; the development of the cult to the deity Hachiman; a history of the interactions between Buddhism and local cults in Japan; a history of the Shugendo tradition of mountain religious ascetics, and much more.

Mountain Mandalas sheds light on important aspects of Japan's religion and culture, and will be of interest to all scholars of Shinto and Japanese religion. Extensive translations of source material can be found on the book's webpage.
Table of contentsIllustrations ix
Preface xi
Organization of the Book xiii
Acknowledgements xiv
Note on Translation and Text xvi
1 Shugendō and the Production of Social Space 1
2 Geotyped and Chronotyped Social Spaces 83
3 Festivities and Processions: Spatialities of Power 157
4 Shattered Bodies, Statues, and the Entreaties of Truncated Memory 235
Afterword: From Spatialities to Dislocation 245
Japanese Glossary 249
Notes 261
Bibliography 287
Index 295
ISBN9781474249003 (hc); 9781350044937 (pbk)
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