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