Itineraries of an Anthropologist
Studies in Honour of Massimo Raveri
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abstract
This volume is a Festschrift in honour of Massimo Raveri, Honorary Professor of Japanese Religions at the Department of Asian and North-African Studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. This wide-ranging collection features essays that pay homage to his extensive academic interests and his interdisciplinary approach to the study of classical and contemporary Japanese religions. It is a tribute by friends and colleagues wishing to express their esteem and affection towards a scholar who, over the course of his long career, has shared many research experiences with them, in a spirit of unfailing support and collaboration.
Philosophical truth • Hiyoshi Taisha • Japanese Buddhism • Shin-shin-shūkyō • Shinbutsu • Satoyama • Kumano • Contemporary Japan • Shugendō • Japanese religions • Historiography • Sathya Sai Baba • History of thought • Discourse analysis • Social anthropology • Goryōe • Japanese Imperialism • Ritual • Japanese shamanism • Anthropology of Japan • Engi • Kagura • Fascism • Oxford • Sutra of the Questions by Druma, King of the Kinna • Guru • Amidist Buddhism • Shaman • Buddhist wisdom • Armageddon • Mānasa Bhajare • New-new religions • Aum Shinrikyō • Philosophy of music (Japan) • Second World War • AI • Robots • Japanese Fascism • Apocalypticism • Philosophy of pure positive • Environmental sustainability • Asahara Shōkō • Gagaku • Teachings • Japanology • Cultural heritage • Japanese studies • Massimo Raveri • Buddhism and music • Polythetic class • Landscape • Combinatory rituals • Mindar • Path to salvation • ‘Dialogical dialogue’ • Japan • Pilgrimage • Mountain beliefs • First public discourse • Affect • Iwashimizu Hachimangū