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This book examines 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. The book brings together a wide range of specialists in anthropology, religion, and cultural studies, who set Japanese pilgrimage in a wider comparative perspective, apply models of pilgrimage to quests for vocational fulfillment, 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.

Pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Self-knowledge, Theory of. --- Self-perception. --- Japan --- Religious life and customs. --- J1712 --- J1714 --- Japan: Religion in general -- psychology of religion and spirituality --- Japan: Religion in general -- sociology of religion --- Self-knowledge, Theory of --- Self-perception --- Self-concept --- Self image --- Self-understanding --- Perception --- Self-discrepancy theory --- Self-evaluation --- Introspection (Theory of knowledge) --- Knowledge, Reflexive --- Knowledge of self, Theory of --- Reflection (Theory of knowledge) --- Reflexive knowledge --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Personality (Theory of knowledge) --- Self (Philosophy) --- Processions, Religious --- Travelers --- Voyages and travels --- Shrines --- Pilgrimages and pilgrims --- Spiritual tourism --- E-books