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Chinkon Kishin
Author | : Birgit Staemmler |
Publsiher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9783825868994 |
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Religion and National Identity in the Japanese Context
Author | : Hiroshi Kubota,Klaus J. Antoni,Johann Nawrocki,Michael Wachutka |
Publsiher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783825860431 |
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This book focuses upon the relationship between religion and socio-cultural or socio-political aspects in the history of religions in Japan. Religious and ideological justifications in the course of forming a political and national identity, and the mutual relation between political, national and cultural issues can be noticed in every region of the world before the onset of secularization processes, but also in modern nation-states today. In Japan as well, just like in most modern societies, political, cultural and religious elements are closely interrelated. In a comparative approach the sixteen papers in this volume elucidate the intellectual undercurrent in Japanese history of putting positive perspectives on national achievements and cultural-religious uniqueness into service of establishing and refurbishing a national identity.
Prophet Motive
Author | : Nancy K. Stalker |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2007-10-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780824864040 |
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From the 1910s to the mid-1930s, the flamboyant and gifted spiritualist Deguchi Onisaburô (1871–1948) transformed his mother-in-law’s small, rural religious following into a massive movement, eclectic in content and international in scope. Through a potent blend of traditional folk beliefs and practices like divination, exorcism, and millenarianism, an ambitious political agenda, and skillful use of new forms of visual and mass media, he attracted millions to Oomoto, his Shintoist new religion. Despite its condemnation as a heterodox sect by state authorities and the mainstream media, Oomoto quickly became the fastest-growing religion in Japan of the time. In telling the story of Onisaburô and Oomoto, Nancy Stalker not only gives us the first full account in English of the rise of a heterodox movement in imperial Japan, but also provides new perspectives on the importance of "charismatic entrepreneurship" in the success of new religions around the world. She makes the case that these religions often respond to global developments and tensions (imperialism, urbanization, consumerism, the diffusion of mass media) in similar ways. They require entrepreneurial marketing and management skills alongside their spiritual authority if their groups are to survive encroachments by the state and achieve national/international stature. Their drive to realize and extend their religious view of the world ideally stems from a "prophet" rather than "profit" motive, but their activity nevertheless relies on success in the modern capitalist, commercial world. Unlike many studies of Japanese religion during this period, Prophet Motive works to dispel the notion that prewar Shinto was monolithically supportive of state initiatives and ideology.
A Popular Dictionary of Shinto
Author | : Brian Bocking |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2005-09-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781135797393 |
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A comprehensive glossary and reference work with more than a thousand entries on Shinto ranging from brief definitions and Japanese terms to short essays dealing with aspects of Shinto practice, belief and institutions from early times up to the present day.
Reiki Practice and Surrender
Author | : Dori-Michelle Beeler,Jojan Jonker |
Publsiher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2021-01-25 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9783643912701 |
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The authors discuss the religious spiritual healing practice Reiki, revealing components of it that help transform the message held by the alleged life-force called reiki energy into meaning expressed in efficacy for the recipient's body, mind and spirit. Components that are analyzed include but are not limited to, touch, symbols, initiation, and precepts. The practitioner's surrender to a combination of internal and external authority - with reiki energy being part of that - is a crux in Reiki practice and one means with which practitioners speak of beneficial effect. This work contributes to academic knowledge about how practicing a religious or spiritual practice may contribute to one's well-being and flourishing life. Moreover, it explores the question of the nature of Reiki in academic definitions of religion.
Converting Cultures
Author | : Dennis Washburn,Kevin Reinhart |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2007-05-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789047420330 |
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This volume considers the concept of conversion as a tool for understanding transformations to modernity. It examines conversions to modernity within the Ottoman domain, India, China, and Japan as a reaction to the pressures of colonialism and imperialism.
Meditation and the Martial Arts
Author | : Michael L. Raposa |
Publsiher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2003-12-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0813924596 |
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The relationship between meditation and the martial arts is a multifaceted one: meditation is one of the practices in which martial artists engage in order to prepare for combat, while the physical exercises constituting much of the discipline of the martial arts might well be considered meditative practices. Michael Raposa, himself a martial arts practitioner, suggests there is a sense in which meditation may in turn be considered a form of combat, citing a variety of spiritual disciplines that are not strictly classified as "martial arts" yet that employ the heavy use of martial images and categories as part of their self-description. Raposa, in this extraordinary alloy of meditation manual, historical synthesis, and spiritual guide, provides a fascinating approach to understanding the connection between martial arts and spirituality in such diverse disciplines as Japanese aikido, Chinese tai chi chuan, Hindu yoga, Christian asceticism, Zen Buddhism, and Islamic jihad. What happens when spiritual discipline is appropriated for exercises meant for health or recreation? How might prayer, meditation, and ritual be understood as martial activities? What is the nature of conflict, and who is the enemy? These are some of the questions Raposa raises and responds to in Meditation and the Martial Arts, his rumination on the martial arts as meditative practice and meditation as a martial discipline.
AiKiD
Author | : Winfried Wagner |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2015-06-19 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9783658101664 |
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In this volume, nine renowned experts delineate their theoretical or methodological approach of Aikidô in potentiating constructive handling of social conflicts. The authors depict the contribution of the Japanese self-defensive art Aikidô to the theory and practice of conflict transformation. The concept of Elicitive Conflict Transformation (Lederach, Dietrich) necessarily calls for a revised understanding of applied peace work and a new personal profile of the conflict worker. This is the point where Aikidô and conflict/peace work meet.