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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_5557
dc.contributor.author	Dolce Lucia
dc.title	“And the zasu Changed his Shoes”: The Resurgence of Combinatory Rituals in Contemporary Japan
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	It is often assumed that the combinatory practices that have characterised Japanese religious history were wiped away by the separation of Buddhism and Shinto imposed by the Meiji restoration. Yet field evidence attests that shinbutsu rituals are still performed today in major Shinto institutions. This paper offers a reflection on the nature of contemporary combinatory rituals through three study cases: rituals that continue premodern traditions at Kasuga and Hiyoshi Taisha; new rituals created to emphasise the combinatory as the proper dimension of religion in Japan; exorcistic rituals recovered as a contribution to the current health emergency.
dc.relation.ispartof	Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies
dc.relation.ispartof	Religion and Thought
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2021-10-18
dc.dateAccepted	2021-04-06
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-01-26
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-528-5/and-the-zasu-changed-his-shoes-the-resurgence-of-c/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-527-8/008
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8976
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9395
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-528-5
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-527-8
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Combinatory rituals
dc.subject	Combinatory rituals
dc.subject	Goryōe
dc.subject	Goryōe
dc.subject	Hiyoshi Taisha
dc.subject	Hiyoshi Taisha
dc.subject	Iwashimizu Hachimangū
dc.subject	Iwashimizu Hachimangū
dc.subject	Pilgrimage
dc.subject	Pilgrimage
dc.subject	Shinbutsu
dc.subject	Shinbutsu

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“And the zasu Changed his Shoes”: The Resurgence of Combinatory Rituals in Contemporary Japan

Lucia Dolce SOAS University of London, UK

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abstract

It is often assumed that the combinatory practices that have characterised Japanese religious history were wiped away by the separation of Buddhism and Shinto imposed by the Meiji restoration. Yet field evidence attests that shinbutsu rituals are still performed today in major Shinto institutions. This paper offers a reflection on the nature of contemporary combinatory rituals through three study cases: rituals that continue premodern traditions at Kasuga and Hiyoshi Taisha; new rituals created to emphasise the combinatory as the proper dimension of religion in Japan; exorcistic rituals recovered as a contribution to the current health emergency.

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Oct. 18, 2021

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April 6, 2021

Submitted

Jan. 26, 2021

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978-88-6969-528-5

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978-88-6969-527-8

Keywords: Hiyoshi Taisha • Combinatory rituals • Goryōe • Pilgrimage • Shinbutsu • Iwashimizu Hachimangū

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