The sea and the sacred in Japan : aspects of maritime religion / edited by Fabio Rambelli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rambelli, Fabio, editor.

Series:

Bloomsbury Shinto studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ocean--Religious aspects.

Japan--Religion.

Japan.

Religion.

Physical Description:

xxix, 261 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London, UK : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

Contents:

The sea in the history of Japanese religions / Fabio Rambelli

Cults and culture of the sea : historical and geographical perspectives / Allan G. Grapard

Imperial sea magic? : the sea Kami and the great tasting (daijōsai) at the early Yamato court / Mark Teeuwen

The sea and food offerings for the Kami (shinsen) / Satō Masato

Taming the plague demons : border islanders and the ritual defense of Japan / Jane Alaszewska

Island of many names, island of no name : taboo and the mysteries of Okinoshima / Lindsey E. De Witt

Musical instruments for the sea-God Ebisu : the mythological system of Miho shrine and its performative power / Ōuchi Fumi

An empress at sea : sea deities and divine union in the legends of empress Jingü / Emily B. Simpson

Frogs looking beyond a pond : Shinra Myojin in the "East Asian Mediterranean'' network / Sujung Kim

Hachiman worship among Japanese pirates (wako) of the medieval period : a preliminary survey / Bernhard Scheid

Shugendö and the sea / Gaynor Sekimori

Buddhas from across the sea : the transmission of Buddhism in ancient and medieval temple narratives (engi) / Abe Yasurō

Lands and people drifting ashore : distorted conceptions of Japan's place in the world according to medieval and early modern Japanese myths / Itō Satoshi

Buddhist Japan and the global ocean / D. Max Moerman

The world was born from the sea : reading the origin of '.heaven and earth in the Ruijū jingi hongen / Kanazawa Hideyuki

Orikuchi Shinobu and the sea as religious topos : Marebito and Musubi no kami / Saitō Hideki

Sea theologies : elements for a conceptualization of maritime religiosity in Japan / Fabio Rambelli.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350062856

1350062855

OCLC:

1006451037

Publisher Number:

99977948154