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