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Cultural and theological reflections on the Japanese quest for divinity / / by John J. Keane
| Cultural and theological reflections on the Japanese quest for divinity / / by John J. Keane |
| Autore | Keane John J (Franciscan Friar) |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (212 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 299.5/6 |
| Collana | Theology and Mission in World Christianity |
| Soggetto topico | Gods, Japanese |
| ISBN | 90-04-32240-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Kami (神): The Japanese Word for Divinity -- Early History of Japanese Divinity -- Later Development of the Word Kami -- Twentieth Century Developments -- The Emperors of Japan -- Japanese Tea Ceremony -- Kami: A Key to Japanese Thought -- Implications for Interreligious Dialogue -- The Need for Dialogue -- Final Words? -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910150543503321 |
Keane John J (Franciscan Friar)
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| Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2017 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Founding Territorial Cults in Early Japan : Traces of a Forgotten Ritual in Ancient Myths and Legends / / Gaudenz Domenig
| Founding Territorial Cults in Early Japan : Traces of a Forgotten Ritual in Ancient Myths and Legends / / Gaudenz Domenig |
| Autore | Domenig Gaudenz |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 299.5/6 |
| Collana |
Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024
Brill's Japanese Studies Library |
| Soggetto topico |
Cults - Japan - History - To 1500
Land settlement - Japan - Religious aspects Rites and ceremonies - Japan - History - To 1500 |
| ISBN | 9789004686458 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures and Tables -- Introduction -- The Problem of the Pre-Shinto Cults -- Territorial Cults -- The Focus on Early Japan -- Japan's Protohistory -- Innovations Introduced by the Taika Reform -- Different Versions of the Same Story in Nihon Shoki -- The God Age Mythology -- The Fudoki Mythology -- The Method of Interpretation -- The Theoretical Model -- The Structure of the Book -- Romanisation -- Quoting from Ancient Texts -- Chapter 1 Divination, the Crucial Rite -- Divining with Things Thrown and Falling Down -- Divining the Place for Founding a Shrine -- Absurd Uses of the Falling Motif -- Realistic Methods Exaggerated -- Land Divination Typically Performed in Front -- Divining with Things Cast Overboard -- Floating a Wisteria Twig to Find the Right Place -- Letting a Cooking Set Float to Enemy Land -- Susanoo and the Floating Chopsticks -- Kisakahime and the Lost Bow and Arrow -- Articles to Play on the Sea -- Floats Used for Divining -- Divining in Boats -- The Religious Use of Wood Drifted Ashore -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 The Story of Yato no Kami -- The Topography -- The Mountain Entrance -- The Lacking First Part of the Story -- The Yashiro at the Upper Boundary -- Matachi's Ritual Procedure Reconstructed -- Mibu no Muraji Maro and the Divine Snakes -- Moving a Shrine to Another Site -- The Location of the Ancient Pond -- The New Conditions in the Ritsuryō State -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3 Making a Large Territory in Harima -- Ame no Hiboko and Iwa no Ōkami -- Ame no Hiboko's Arrival -- The Claiming Ceremony on Iibo Hill -- Other Claiming Stories -- The Iibo Hill and Its Special Relation to the Iwa Jinja -- Hardening the Land -- A Model of the Grand-Scale Land-Making Myth? -- The Two Foundations of the Iwa Shrine -- Conclusions -- Chapter 4 Making and Ceding the Land in the God Age.
The God Age Mythology: An Overview According to Kojiki -- The Land-Making Myth -- Sukunabikona -- Ōnamuchi as a Beginner in Land-Making -- The Land-Ceding Myth According to Kojiki -- The Land-Ceding Myth According to Nihon Shoki -- Kojiki and Nihon Shoki: Two Different Doctrines -- Consequences of the Land-Ceding Myth -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Ninigi's Descent and His Territory in Kyushu -- The Title Sentence Pattern -- The Two Main Versions of the Myth -- Cape Kasasa as a Place on the Way to Takachiho -- Ninigi's Arrival at the Coast -- Ninigi Questions the Master of the Land at Cape Kasasa -- Ninigi at Cape Kasasa -- Takama no Hara as a Horizontally Distant Heaven -- Ninigi's Descendants Living in Kyushu -- The Conquest of Yamato -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 The Foundation of the Izumo Shrine -- Ōkuninushi's Place of Hiding and Waiting -- Prince Homuchiwake Worships the Great God of Izumo -- Ashihara no Shikoo and the Worship at Iwakuma -- Mt. Kannabi and the Sokinoya Shrine -- A Suitable Site at the Foot of Mt. Kannabi -- The Political Aspect -- The Foundation of the Shrine at Kizuki -- The Land-Pulling Myth and the Four Kannabi of Izumo -- Summing Up -- Chapter 7 The Foundation of the Ise Shrine -- The Later Version of the Foundation Story -- Name-Asking as a Form of Claiming -- Pillow Words Alluding to Land-Making Myths -- The Topography of the Isuzu Valley -- Sarutahiko and a Heaven in the Mountains -- The Precinct of the Inner Shrine (Naikū) -- From Simple to Complex Cult Systems -- Sarutahiko's Destiny -- Summing Up -- Chapter 8 Characteristics of Territorial Cults -- Divination as the Primary Rite -- Variants of the Cult Contract -- The Cult Contract and the State Ritual after the Taika Reform -- Founder Worship -- Shrine and Tomb -- The Guardian Deity Is Excluded from the Land Opened Up -- Nature Spirits Can Become Manifest in Wild Animals. The Guardian Deity Is Believed to Control the Local Weather -- Calamities Blamed on Some Mistake in the Ritual -- Cult Places Could Be Moved to Enlarge the Agricultural Land -- The Mountain God as a Multifunctional Deity -- The Mountain Entrance and the Torii -- Boundary Marks -- Tabooed Mountain Areas -- The Bipolar Structure of Territories -- The Chigi Cross as a Symbol -- The Name of the Kami Land -- The Age of the Yorishiro Concept -- The Land-Making Motif in Creation Myths -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9 Sacred Groves and Cult Marks -- Yashikigami Worship -- A Sacred Grove on Hirado Island -- The Garō Yama of Tanegashima -- The Sacred Forest of the Ōmiwa Shrine -- The Matsushita Shrine and the Somin Sanctuary -- Cult Marks Replaced by Shrine Buildings -- Yorishiro and Ogishiro -- The Shimenawa and the Straw Snake -- Claiming Signs Made by Binding or Knotting Growing Plants -- Pacifying the Site -- Ancient Land-Claiming and the Rural Gathering Economy -- Sign-Making Dealt with in Ethnographic Studies -- Chapter 10 Comparative Notes -- The Settlement of Iceland -- Founding Sacred Groves and Colonies in Ancient Greece -- The Vedic Tradition -- Opening Up Land in Shifting Cultivation -- From Terrestrial Heavens to the Heaven in the Sky -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Traces of a Forgotten Ritual in Ancient Myths and Legends |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910838185703321 |
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Domenig Gaudenz
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| Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2024 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Japan's sexual gods : shrines, roles, and rituals of procreation and protection / / by Stephen Turnbull
| Japan's sexual gods : shrines, roles, and rituals of procreation and protection / / by Stephen Turnbull |
| Autore | Turnbull Stephen R. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (440 p.) |
| Disciplina | 299.5/6 |
| Collana | Brill's Japanese Studies Library |
| Soggetto topico |
Sex - Religious aspects
Shrines - Japan |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 90-04-29378-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- 1 Sexual Beliefs in Japanese Religion -- 2 Encountering the Sexual in Japanese Culture -- 3 The Phallus in the ‘Age of the Gods’ -- 4 Phallic Beliefs and Mountain Deities -- 5 Sexual Symbolism and Shintō Mythology -- 6 ‘Erotic Gifts’: The Votive Role of Sexual Objects -- 7 Ktenic Imagery in Japan’s Sexual Shrines -- 8 The Phallus as Kami: The Cult of Konsei Daimyōjin -- 9 Hidden Buddhas and Sexual Gods -- 10 The Phallus at the Crossroads: Wayside Gods of Protection and Fertility -- 11 Continuity and Change in Japan’s Phallic Festivals -- 12 Sexual Beliefs in Contemporary Japan -- Glossary of Technical Terms -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460296603321 |
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Turnbull Stephen R.
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| Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , 2015 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Japan's sexual gods : shrines, roles, and rituals of procreation and protection / / by Stephen Turnbull
| Japan's sexual gods : shrines, roles, and rituals of procreation and protection / / by Stephen Turnbull |
| Autore | Turnbull Stephen R. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (440 p.) |
| Disciplina | 299.5/6 |
| Collana | Brill's Japanese Studies Library |
| Soggetto topico |
Sex - Religious aspects
Shrines - Japan |
| ISBN | 90-04-29378-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- 1 Sexual Beliefs in Japanese Religion -- 2 Encountering the Sexual in Japanese Culture -- 3 The Phallus in the ‘Age of the Gods’ -- 4 Phallic Beliefs and Mountain Deities -- 5 Sexual Symbolism and Shintō Mythology -- 6 ‘Erotic Gifts’: The Votive Role of Sexual Objects -- 7 Ktenic Imagery in Japan’s Sexual Shrines -- 8 The Phallus as Kami: The Cult of Konsei Daimyōjin -- 9 Hidden Buddhas and Sexual Gods -- 10 The Phallus at the Crossroads: Wayside Gods of Protection and Fertility -- 11 Continuity and Change in Japan’s Phallic Festivals -- 12 Sexual Beliefs in Contemporary Japan -- Glossary of Technical Terms -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797158703321 |
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Turnbull Stephen R.
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| Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Japan's sexual gods : shrines, roles, and rituals of procreation and protection / / by Stephen Turnbull
| Japan's sexual gods : shrines, roles, and rituals of procreation and protection / / by Stephen Turnbull |
| Autore | Turnbull Stephen R. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (440 p.) |
| Disciplina | 299.5/6 |
| Collana | Brill's Japanese Studies Library |
| Soggetto topico |
Sex - Religious aspects
Shrines - Japan |
| ISBN | 90-04-29378-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- 1 Sexual Beliefs in Japanese Religion -- 2 Encountering the Sexual in Japanese Culture -- 3 The Phallus in the ‘Age of the Gods’ -- 4 Phallic Beliefs and Mountain Deities -- 5 Sexual Symbolism and Shintō Mythology -- 6 ‘Erotic Gifts’: The Votive Role of Sexual Objects -- 7 Ktenic Imagery in Japan’s Sexual Shrines -- 8 The Phallus as Kami: The Cult of Konsei Daimyōjin -- 9 Hidden Buddhas and Sexual Gods -- 10 The Phallus at the Crossroads: Wayside Gods of Protection and Fertility -- 11 Continuity and Change in Japan’s Phallic Festivals -- 12 Sexual Beliefs in Contemporary Japan -- Glossary of Technical Terms -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821914903321 |
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Turnbull Stephen R.
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| Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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