Japanese Rainmaking And Other Folk Practices
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Japanese Rainmaking and other Folk Practices
Author | : Geoffrey Bownas,Pauline Brown |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2013-10-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781136550966 |
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The ritual of rainmaking is one of half a dozen Japanese folk practices and festivals described in this book. The story of rainmaking ceremonies begins with personal experience and then draws on the work of Japanese folklorists to record significant local variations and to construct a general account of the history and purpose of the ceremony. Field research was conducted during study visits to Kyoto, to Tenri in Nara Prefecture and to Shiga Prefecture. The chapter order follows the year cycle, from New Year via early summer purificatory festivals and rainmaking ceremonial to the feast of Bon, which with New Year ceremonies divides the year. Alongside these community or public rites are described private or family rituals concerned with birth, marriage and death. The introductory chapter relates aspects of Japanese culture, myth and language to the constant features of folk practice recorded or extant in 1950s Japan. Originally published in 1963.
Japanese Rainmaking and other Folk Practices
Author | : Geoffrey Bownas,Pauline Brown |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2013-10-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781136550898 |
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The ritual of rainmaking is one of half a dozen Japanese folk practices and festivals described in this book. The story of rainmaking ceremonies begins with personal experience and then draws on the work of Japanese folklorists to record significant local variations and to construct a general account of the history and purpose of the ceremony. Field research was conducted during study visits to Kyoto, to Tenri in Nara Prefecture and to Shiga Prefecture. The chapter order follows the year cycle, from New Year via early summer purificatory festivals and rainmaking ceremonial to the feast of Bon, which with New Year ceremonies divides the year. Alongside these community or public rites are described private or family rituals concerned with birth, marriage and death. The introductory chapter relates aspects of Japanese culture, myth and language to the constant features of folk practice recorded or extant in 1950s Japan. Originally published in 1963.
Japanese Religion
Author | : Robert Ellwood,Richard Pilgrim |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2016-09-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781315507118 |
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This book provides an overview of religion in Japan, from ancient times to the present. It also emphasizes the cultural and attitudinal manifestations of religion in Japan, withough neglecting dates and places.
Marriage in Changing Japan
Author | : Joy Hendry |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2010-10-18 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9781136898006 |
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This book approaches its subject from two angles. First, there is a detailed and descriptive analysis of the social organisation of, and place of marriage in, one community in Kyushu. To this extent, the study is a regional one and provides valuable ethnographic information. The second angle, however, is to analyse this material in the light of other historical ethnographical writings on Japan, which puts the regional material in a national context, and brings together a great deal of information about Japanese marriage hitherto unpublished in English.
The Kakure Kirishitan of Japan
Author | : Stephen R. Turnbull |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Catholics |
ISBN | : 9781873410707 |
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First major study in English of the Japanese 'hidden' Christians - the Kakure Kirishitan, who chose to remain separate from the Catholic Church when religious toleration was granted in 1873 - and the development of the faith and rituals from the 16th century to the present day.
Religion in Japanese Daily Life
Author | : David C. Lewis |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2017-09-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781317194378 |
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Are Japanese people religious – and, if so, in what ways? David Lewis addresses this question from the perspective of ordinary Japanese people in the context of their life cycles, and explores why they engage in religious activities. He not only discusses how Japanese people engage in different religious practices as they encounter new events in their lives but also analyses the attitudes and motivations behind their behaviour. Activities such as fortune-telling, religious rites in the workplace, ancestral rites and visits to shrines and temples are actually engaged in by many people who view themselves as ‘non- religious’ but express their motivations in terms other than the conventional ‘religious’ ones. This book outlines the religious options available, and assesses why people choose particular religious activities at various times in their lives or in specific circumstances. The author challenges some widespread assumptions about religion in urban and industrial contexts and also shows how some of the underlying motivations behind Japanese behaviour are expressed both in religious and non-religious forms.
RLE Japan Mini Set E Sociology and Anthropology
Author | : Various |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 2434 |
Release | : 2021-07-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781136897511 |
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Mini-set E: Sociology & Anthropology re-issues 10 volumes originally published between 1931 and 1995 and covers topics such as japanese whaling, marriage in japan, and the japanese health care system. For institutional purchases for e-book sets please contact [email protected] (customers in the UK, Europe and Rest of World)
Consulting Spirits
Author | : Joel Bjorling |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 1998-04-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780313387647 |
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Throughout history, people have been intrigued with spirits, angels, or devas as sources of wisdom and guidance. They are not only interesting as those who possess an insight into events and circumstances, but also as proof of life after death. In this clear and useful reference guide, Bjorling presents a listing of the literature on the various ways in which people of different cultures have consulted spirits—through shamans and oracles, magic, mediums, Voodoo, and psychics. Each chapter contains a general introduction to the respective topic as well as a listing of pertinent books, articles, and dissertations. His survey also includes early spirit contacts in Africa, Latin America, and Asia.