Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods The Politics of a Pilgrimage Site in Japan, 1573-1912

Name: Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods The Politics of a Pilgrimage Site in Japan, 1573-1912
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ISBN: 9780226794211

ISBN-10: 0226794210

ISBN-13: 9780226794211

Edition: 2005

Authors: Sarah Thal

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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…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 0.99" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English




Konpira : site of the Gods



Of gods and rulers (to 1587)



Konpira, Kongobo, and the establishment of the Tokugawa order (1600-1675)



God of the market (1688-1760)



Culture of the gods (1744-1867)



From Konpira to Kotohira (1868-1869)



For the state and its teaching (1871-1874)



The reverence association (1874-1882)



A shrine without religion (1882-1892)



The crucible of war (1894-1895)



Public good, private gain (1895-1898)



Remobilizing the God (1898-1905)



The many faces of Kotohira (1908-1912)


Epilogue : Konpira, then and now



Head priests of Konkoin and Kotohira shrine