Peter Ackermann & Maria Rodriguez del Alisal 
Pilgrimages and Spiritual Quests in Japan [PDF ebook] 

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This exciting new book is a detailed examination of pilgrimages in Japan, including the meanings of travel, transformation, and the discovery of identity through encounters with the sacred, in a variety of interesting dimensions in both historical and contemporary Japanese culture, linked by the unifying theme of a spiritual quest. Several fascinating new approaches to traditional forms of pilgrimage are put forward by a wide range of specialists in anthropology, religion and cultural studies, who set Japanese pilgrimage in a wider comparative perspective. They apply models of pilgrimage to quests for vocational fulfilment, examining cases as diverse as the civil service, painting and poetry, and present ethnographies of contemporary reconstructions of old spiritual quests, as conflicting (and sometimes global) demands impinge on the time and space of would-be pilgrims.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 208 ● ISBN 9781134350469 ● Editor Peter Ackermann & Maria Rodriguez del Alisal ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2007 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 4323951 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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