Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies

Series | Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies
Volume 14 | Edited book | Itineraries of an Anthropologist

Itineraries of an Anthropologist

Studies in Honour of Massimo Raveri

open access | peer reviewed

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.

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

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-527-8 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-527-8 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-528-5 | Dimensions 16x23cm | Published Oct. 18, 2021 | Language en

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