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