The Sea and the Sacred in Japan: Aspects of Maritime Religion by Rambelli, Fabio

The Sea and the Sacred in Japan: Aspects of Maritime Religion (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350147645)

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The Sea and the Sacred in Japan: Aspects of Maritime Religion by Rambelli, Fabio

The Sea and the Sacred in Japan: Aspects of Maritime Religion

$44.95
The Sea and the Sacred in Japan: Aspects of Maritime Religion by Rambelli, Fabio

The Sea and the Sacred in Japan: Aspects of Maritime Religion

$44.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Fabio Rambelli
ISBN-10: 1350147648
ISBN-13: 9781350147645
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 01/23/2020
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.61d
By Fabio Rambelli
By Fabio Rambelli
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Fabio Rambelli is Professor of Japanese Religions and Cultural History and ISF Endowed Chair in Shinto Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

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