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