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