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Ritual Practice in Modern Japan: Ordering Place, People, and Action

Autor Satsuki Kawano
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2005

National surveys indicate that most Japanese, while professing no religious commitment, frequently perform rituals: They regularly tend their family home altars, look after family graves, participate in neighborhood festivals, and visit Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples. Are these rituals mere formalities?

Based on fourteen months of fieldwork in Kamakura city near Tokyo, Satsuki Kawano examines the power of ritual and its relevance for modern urbanites. She reveals the indebtedness of ritual to forms that create an elevated context and infuse the mundane with a sense of moral order. By employing acts and environments common to everyday life, Kawano argues, ritual evokes morally positive values such as purity, gratitude, respect, and indebtedness. Rather than objectify morality in a sacred text or religious doctrine, ritual embodies and emplaces a sense of what it means to be a good person and creates moments of personal significance and engagement. In Kamakura, belief is therefore a consequence and not a prerequisite of ritual engagement.

Ritual Practice in Modern Japan effectively challenges the widespread assumption that ritual in non-Western societies has little moral significance and that, with modernization, "traditional" practices inevitably disappear. This is a book that will interest scholars and students of cultural anthropology, ritual studies, and Japanese studies.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780824829346
ISBN-10: 0824829344
Pagini: 152
Dimensiuni: 136 x 204 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: University of Hawaii Press

Notă biografică

Satsuki Kawano is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Guelph, (Canada).