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Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan(No. 235 Harvard East Asian Monographs)

Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan(No. 235 Harvard East Asian Monographs)


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Although located far from the populated centres of traditional Japan, the three Kumano shrines occupied a central position in the Japanese religious landscape. For centuries Kumano was the most visited pilgrimage site in Japan and attracted devotees from across the boundaries of sect (Buddhist, Daoist, Shinto), class, and gender. It was also a major institutional centre, commanding networks of affiliated shrines, extensive landholdings, and its own army, and a site of production, generating agricultural products and symbolic capital in the form of spiritual values. Kumano was thus both a real place and a utopia: a non-place of paradise or enlightenment. It was a location in which cultural ideals - about death, salvation, gender, and authority - were represented, contested, and even at times inverted. This book encompasses both the real and the ideal, both the historical and the ideological, Kumano. It studies Kumano not only as a site of practice, a stage for the performance of asceticism and pilgrimage, but also as a place of the imagination, a topic of literary and artistic representation.

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Moerman focuses his book on a complex pilgrimage site, yet his methodological approach is very different. As he points out in his introduction, he is "less concerned with reconstructing the institutional history of the Kumano cult than with examining the social construction of a religious landscape." In other words, Moerman is interested in reconstructing the mental universe surrounding Kumano in the medieval period. Moerman is true to his word. Aside from briefly contextualizing the site institutionally and geographically in chapter one, Moerman rarely refers to Kumano's religious institutions but focuses instead on how Kumano has been portrayed in legend, art, and pilgrims' accounts...In regard to the study of pilgrimage, Moerman's monograph has much to offer, ranging from engagement with theories of pilgrimage to the discussion of Japanese specificities...His work is one of the most polished and readable among recent studies on medieval Japanese religions.--Barbara Ambros "Religious Studies Review " among recent studies on medieval Japanese religions.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780674013957
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Harvard University Press
  • Height: 233 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan
  • Width: 181 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0674013956
  • Publisher Date: 01 Apr 2006
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: No. 235 Harvard East Asian Monographs
  • Weight: 596 gr


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