Defining Shugendo - Critical Studies on Japanese Mountain Religion

This book brings together leading international experts on Japanese mountain cults to discuss what has been an essential component of Japanese religions for more than a thousand years. Contributors explore how mountains have been abodes of deities, a resting place for the dead, sources of natural bounty and calamities, places of religious activities, and a vast repository of symbols. The book shows that many peoples have chosen them as sites for ascetic practices, claiming that it was possible to attain supernatural powers there. D ning Shugendo: Critical Studies on Japanese Mountain Religion discusses the history of scholarship on Shugendo, the process of development of mountain cults, the religious and philosophical features of practice and devotion at specific sacred mountains, and the rich material and visual culture associated with Shugendo, from statues to steles, and talismans to written oaths.

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• Authors: Andrea Castiglioni, CASTIGLIONI ANDREA, Fabio Rambelli, Carina Roth
• Assisted by: Andrea Castiglioni (Editor), Andrea (Nagoya City University Castiglioni (Editor), Fabio Rambelli (Editor), Professor Fabio (University of California Rambelli (Editor), Rambelli Fabio (Editor), Carina Roth (Editor), Carina (University of Geneva Roth (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781350179394
• ISBN: 978-1-350-17939-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Japan, RELIGION / General, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Asian History, Other non-Christian religions, Other religions and spiritual beliefs