Localizing Paradise Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan /

Localizing Paradise Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Moerman, D. Max
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2005.
Series:	Harvard East Asian monographs ; 235
Subjects:	Kumano Hayatama Jinja (Shingū-shi, Japan) Kumano Nachi Jinja (Nachikatsuura-chō, Japan) Kumano Hongūsha (Natori-shi, Japan) Kumano Region (Japan) > Religion.
Online Access:	CONNECT

Table of Contents:

Situating Kumano
The place and path of Kumano pilgrimage
Institutional and economic structures
Picturing Kumano
Structure and agenda
Emplacements
The land of origins
Sites of asceticism
Translocated genealogies
Multiple paradises
Esoteric cartographies
Institutional portraits
Mortuary practices
Suicide and salvation
Funereal pilgrimage
Return passage
Memorial rites
The theater of state
The political landscape
Imperial progress and Institutional growth
Religious politics and Buddhist Kingship paradises future and past
A woman's place
Gender and the ambiguities of enlightenment
Female trouble
Exclusion and transgression
Buddhist matriarchies
A second genesis
A hell of one's own.