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This book draws attention to a striking aspect of contemporary Japanese culture: the prevalence of discussions and representations of "spirits" (tama or tamashii). Ancestor cults have played a central role in Japanese culture and religion for many centuries; in recent decades, however, other phenomena have expanded and diversified the realm of Japanese animism. For example, many manga, anime, TV shows, literature, and art works deal with spirits, ghosts, or with an invisible dimension of reality. International contributors ask to what extent these are cultural forms created by the media for consumption, rather than manifestations of "traditional" ancestral spirituality in their adaptations to contemporary society. Spirits and Animism in Contemporary Japan considers the modes of representations and the possible cultural meanings of spirits, as well as the metaphysical implications of contemporary Japanese ideas about spirits. The chapters offer analyses of specific cases of "animistic attitudes" in which the presence of spirits and spiritual forces is alleged, and attempt to trace cultural genealogies of those attitudes. In particular, they present various modes of representation of spirits (in contemporary art, architecture, visual culture, cinema, literature, diffuse spirituality) while at the same time addressing their underlying intellectual and religious assumptions.

Animism --- Religion and culture --- Japan --- Religion --- Civilization $y 21st century.

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The Sea and the Sacred in Japan is the first book to focus on the role of the sea in Japanese religions. While many leading Shinto deities tend to be understood today as unrelated to the sea, and mountains are considered the privileged sites of sacredness, this book provides new ways to understand Japanese religious culture and history. Scholars from North America, Japan and Europe explore the sea and the sacred in relation to history, culture, politics, geography, worldviews and cosmology, space and borders, and ritual practices and doctrines. Examples include Japanese indigenous conceptualizations of the sea from the Middle Ages to the 20th century; ancient sea myths and rituals; sea deities and sea cults; the role of the sea in Buddhist cosmology; and the international dimension of Japanese Buddhism and its maritime imaginary.

Ocean --- Religious aspects --- Japan --- Religion.

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J1861 --- J1954.10 --- J1830 --- J1946 --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- relation with Shintō (and Shinbutsu) --- Japan: Religion -- Shintō -- sects -- Buddhist Shintō --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- deities --- Japan: Religion -- Shintō -- kami --- Shinto --- Buddhism --- Relations --- Buddhism. --- Shinto. --- J1912.90 --- J1913.10 --- Japan: Religion -- Shintō -- sects and schools -- traditional -- Buddhist shintō --- Religions --- Buddha and Buddhism --- Lamaism --- Ris-med (Lamaism) --- Relations&delete&

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"In premodern Japan, legitimization of power and knowledge in various contexts was sanctioned by consecration rituals (kanjō) of Buddhist origin. This is the first book to address in a comprehensive way the multiple forms and aspects of these rituals also in relation to other Asian contexts.The multidisciplinary chapters in the book address the origins of these rituals in ancient Persia and India and their developments in China and Tibet, before discussing in depth their transformations in medieval Japan. In particular, kanjō rituals are examined from various perspectives: imperial ceremonies, Buddhist monastic rituals, vernacular religious forms (Shugendō mountain cults, Shinto lineages), rituals of bodily transformation involving sexual practice, and the performing arts: a history of these developments, descriptions of actual rituals, and reference to religious and intellectual arguments based on under-examined primary sources. No other book presents so many cases of kanjō in such depth and breadth. This book is relevant to readers interested in Buddhist studies, Japanese religions, the history of Japanese culture, and in the intersections between religious doctrines, rituals, legitimization, and performance"--

Bouddhisme --- Buddhism --- Religion and sociology --- Religion and sociology. --- Religion. --- Rites and ceremonies --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Ritual --- Ritual. --- Rituel --- Sociologie religieuse --- Histoire --- History --- History --- History --- History --- Histoire --- Histoire --- 1600-1868. --- Japan --- Japan --- Japan. --- Japon --- Religion --- Religious life and customs --- Religion