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Pilgrimages and spiritual quests in Japan
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- Creator
- edited by Maria Rodríguez del Alisal, Peter Ackermann and Dolores P. Martinez
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- London ; New York : Routledge, 2007
- Physical Details
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- xxi, 184 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0415323185, 9780415323185, 0203318501, 9780203318508, 0415481333, 9780415481335
- OCLC
- ocm71243866
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Part I: Pilgrimages, paths and places -- Travel as spiritual quest in Japan / Peter Ackermann -- Pilgrimage roads in Spain and Japan / Jesus González Valles -- Pilgrimage, space and identity : Ise (Japan) and Santiago de Compostela (Spain) / Sylvie Guichard-Anguis -- The concept of pilgrimage in Japan / Sachiko Usui -- The daily life of the henro on the island of Shikoku during the Edo period as mirror of Tokugawa society / Nathalie Kouamé -- Strangers and pilgrimage in village Japan / Teigo Yoshida -- Part II: Reconstructing the quest -- Current increase in walking pilgrims / Eiki Hoshino -- New forms of pilgrimage in Japanese society / Maria Rodríguez del Alisal -- Old gods, new pilgrimages? A whistle stop tour of Japanese international theme parks / Joy Hendry -- Part III: The quest for the magic, liminal or non-ordinary -- Pilgrimages in Japan : how far are they determined by unconsciously held assumptions? / Peter Ackermann -- Agari-umāi, or the Eastern Tour : a Ryūkyūan royal ritual and its transformations / Patrick Beillevaire -- Takiguchi Shūzō and Joan Miró / Pilar Cabañas -- Hiroshima, mon amour : an inner pilgrimage to catharsis / Antonio Santos -- Part IV" The quest for vocational fulfilment -- The 'initiation rites' and 'pilgrimages' of local civil servants in the age of internationalization / Hirochika Nakamaki -- Travel ethnography in Japan / Jan van Bremen -- A Japanese painter's quest : Suda Kunitarō's journey to Spain / Rosalia Medina Bermejo -- Pilgrimage and experience : an afterword / Dolores P. Martinez