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Indlæser... Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods: The Politics of a Pilgrimage Site in Japan, 1573-1912af Sarah Thal
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Thal's presentation is ultimately so successful because she continuously personalizes the narrative by invoking diaries, letters, inscriptions on votive tablets (ema 絵馬), and other historical documents that emphasize the lives and, perhaps most importantly, experiences of individuals with respect to the site she so thoroughly explores in her work. . . . [T]he importance of such histories is underscored by the numerous occurrences of "the late" as a preface to names in Thal's Acknowledgments: As scholars and informants pass away, an additional responsibility of the historian is to ensure that her or his interpretations and representations of the landscape of history preserve and disseminate the perspectives of previous generations so that the landscape may be adequately revisited and revised—and its rearrangements contextualized and understood—in the years to come. Belongs to Series
When people create new societies, economies, and nations--both now and in the past--they create gods, rituals, and miracles to support them. Even what seem to be some of the most timeless and sacred sites in the world have been shaped, reshaped, and reinterpreted by countless people to produce oases of peace and nature today. Using miracle tales, votive plaques, diaries, and newspapers, Sarah Thal traces such changes at one of the most popular Japanese pilgrimage sites of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the shrine of Konpira on the island of Shikoku. This rich and fascinating history explores how people from all walks of life gave shape to the gods, shrines, and rituals so often attributed to ancient, indigenous Japan. Thal shows how worshippers and priests, rulers and entrepreneurs, repeatedly rebuilt and reinterpreted Konpira to reflect their needs and aspirations in a changing world--and how, in doing so, they helped shape the structures of the modern state, economy, and society in turn. Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods will be welcomed by all scholars of Japanese history and by students of religion interested in the construction of modernity. No library descriptions found. |
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