Emplacing a Pilgrimage - The Oyama Cult and Regional Religion in Early Modern Japan

Informationen zum Autor Barbara Ambros is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina! Chapel Hill. Klappentext Towering over the Kanto Plain! the sacred mountain oyama has loomed large over the religious landscape of early modern Japan. This book offers a narrative history of the mountain and its place in contemporary society and popular religion by focusing on the development of the oyama cult and its religious! political! and socioeconomic contexts. Zusammenfassung The sacred mountain Oyama (literally, “Big Mountain”) has loomed over the religious landscape of early modern Japan. Ambros provides a narrative history of the mountain and its place in contemporary society and popular religion by focusing on the development of the Oyama cult and its religious, political, and socioeconomic contexts.

Info autore

Barbara Ambros is Professor in East Asian Religions in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Barbara Ambros
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 15.03.2008
• EAN: 9780674027756
• ISBN: 978-0-674-02775-6
• Pagine: 330
• Dimensioni: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Serie: Harvard East Asian Monographs; Harvard East Asian Monographs; Harvard East Asian Monographs (HUP)
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Altre religioni