The Sea and the Sacred in Japan - Aspects of Maritime Religion

The Sea and the Sacred in Japan is the first book to focus on the role of the sea in Japanese religions. While many leading Shinto deities tend to be understood today as unrelated to the sea, and mountains are considered the privileged sites of sacredness, this book provides new ways to understand Japanese religious culture and history. Scholars from North America, Japan and Europe explore the sea and the sacred in relation to history, culture, politics, geography, worldviews and cosmology, space and borders, and ritual practices and doctrines. Examples include Japanese indigenous conceptualizations of the sea from the Middle Ages to the 20th century; ancient sea myths and rituals; sea deities and sea cults; the role of the sea in Buddhist cosmology; and the international dimension of Japanese Buddhism and its maritime imaginary.>

About the author

Fabio Rambelli is Distinguished Professor of Japanese religions and holder of the International Shinto Foundation chair in Shinto Studies in the departments of Religious Studies and East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Fabio Rambelli, Fabio (University of California Rambelli
• Assisted by: Fabio Rambelli (Editor), Fabio (University of California Rambelli (Editor), Rambelli Fabio (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781350062856
• ISBN: 978-1-350-06285-6
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Bloomsbury Shinto Studies; Bloomsbury Shinto Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, RELIGION / Shintoism, RELIGION / Buddhism / History, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Buddhism, Asian History, Shintoism