Ceremony and Ritual in Japan (eBook, PDF)

Religious Practices in an Industrialized Society
Redaktion: Martinez, D. P.; Bremen, Jan van

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Japan is one of the most urbanised and industrialised countries in the world. Yet the Japanese continue to practise a variety of religious rituals and ceremonies despite the high-tech, highly regimented nature of Japanese society. Ceremony and Ritual in Japan focuses on the traditional and religious aspects of Japanese society from an anthropological perspective, presenting new material and making cross-cultural comparisons.
The chapters in this collection cover topics as diverse as funerals and mourning, sweeping, women's roles in ritual, the division of ceremonial foods into bitter and sweet, the history of a shrine, the playing of games, the exchange of towels and the relationship between ceremony and the workplace. The book provides an overview of the meaning of tradition, and looks at the way in which new ceremonies have sprung up in changing circumstances, while old ones have been preserved, or have developed new meanings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134818556
• Artikelnr.: 38245813

Autorenporträt

Jan van Bremen, D.P. Martinez

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Jan van Bremen
Part 1 The question of tradition
Chapter 1 Wedding and funeral ritual, Robert J. Smith
Chapter 2 Rituality in the kengame, Sepp Linhart
Chapter 3 The parish of a famous shrine, Sylvie Guichard-Anguis
Part 2 Rituals for the dead
Chapter 4 On structural duality in Japanese conceptions of death, Halldór Stefánsson
Chapter 5 Orchestrated reciprocity, Jane M. Bachnik
Chapter 6 Memorial monuments and memorial services of Japanese companies, Hirochika Nakamaki
Part 3 The tools of ceremony
Chapter 7 A Japanese Shint? Parade, Arne Kalland
Chapter 8, D.P. Martinez
Chapter 9 Sonaemono, Jane Cobbi
Chapter 10, Joy Hendry
Chapter 11 Cleaning floors and sweeping the mind, Ian Reader
conclusion Conclusion: The rituals of urbanity, Augustin Berque