Spirituality and alternativity in contemporary Japan : beyond religion? / Ioannis Gaitanidis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaitanidis, Ioannis, author.

Series:

Bloomsbury advances in religious studies.

Bloomsbury advances in religious studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spirituality.

Japan--Religion.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2022]

Summary:

"This book critically analyses the creation and effects of spirituality as both discourse and practice in Japan. It shows how the value of spirituality has been sustained by scholars who have wished for a more civic role for religion; by the publishing industry whose exponential growth in the 1980s fashioned those who later identified as the representatives of this "new spirituality culture"; by "spiritual therapists" who have sought to eke out a livelihood in an increasingly professionalized and regulated therapeutic field; and by the cruel optimism of an increasingly precarious workforce placing its hopes in the imagined alternative that the supirichuaru represents"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Supirichuariti and "Japanese Religions"

Part I: Agents of Spirituality Discourse: Scholars, Publishers, Translators, and Healers. 1. Spiritual Academia ; 2. Print Spirituality ; 3. Spiritual Therapists

Part II: Spirituality in Practice: Precarity, Failure, Hope, and Healing. 4. Hypnotherapy in the Age of Inattention ; 5. Precarities in the Spiritual Business ; 6. Spirituality on Trial

Conclusion: "Spirituality" and Precariousness in the Contemporary World

Afterword

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-350-26262-5

1-350-26263-3

OCLC:

1293234617