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.
Japan • Asahara Shōkō • Environmental sustainability • Aum Shinrikyō • Oxford • Second World War • Combinatory rituals • Japanese shamanism • Mānasa Bhajare • Engi • Buddhism and music • Philosophy of music (Japan) • Robots • Contemporary Japan • Mountain beliefs • Shaman • Shin-shin-shūkyō • Path to salvation • Apocalypticism • Anthropology of Japan • Mindar • Teachings • Social anthropology • Buddhist wisdom • AI • Japanese Imperialism • Hiyoshi Taisha • Shinbutsu • Armageddon • First public discourse • New-new religions • Japanese religions • Ritual • Japanese Fascism • Kagura • Gagaku • Discourse analysis • Japanese Buddhism • Japanology • Philosophy of pure positive • Pilgrimage • Affect • Massimo Raveri • Philosophical truth • Sathya Sai Baba • Japanese studies • Historiography • Cultural heritage • Iwashimizu Hachimangū • Shugendō • Satoyama • Polythetic class • Goryōe • Amidist Buddhism • Fascism • Guru • Landscape • Kumano • ‘Dialogical dialogue’ • Sutra of the Questions by Druma, King of the Kinna • History of thought