Itineraries of an Anthropologist
Studies in Honour of Massimo Raveri
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abstract
This book is being dedicated to Massimo Raveri on the occasion of his retirement. It is designed to recreate the various thematic itineraries that he has traced and followed in his career. Each of the essays included represents a topic in which Prof. Raveri has shown great interest, paving the way for further studies. In offering these essays to him, his friends and colleagues are both bearing witness to his interest in such topics and contributing to their study. Contributions by former students of Prof. Raveri’s further show how these fields of study are being developed in his footsteps.
Engi • Historiography • AI • Ritual • Japan • Shugendō • Philosophy of pure positive • Iwashimizu Hachimangū • Contemporary Japan • Japanese Buddhism • Cultural heritage • History of thought • Shinbutsu • Japanese Imperialism • Japanese religions • Mountain beliefs • New-new religions • Pilgrimage • Path to salvation • Second World War • Amidist Buddhism • Kagura • Japanese studies • Shaman • Gagaku • Massimo Raveri • ‘Dialogical dialogue’ • Hiyoshi Taisha • Aum Shinrikyō • Philosophical truth • Kumano • Teachings • Landscape • Buddhism and music • First public discourse • Goryōe • Fascism • Guru • Oxford • Mānasa Bhajare • Polythetic class • Japanology • Mindar • Sutra of the Questions by Druma, King of the Kinna • Affect • Combinatory rituals • Anthropology of Japan • Asahara Shōkō • Armageddon • Environmental sustainability • Buddhist wisdom • Japanese shamanism • Apocalypticism • Japanese Fascism • Robots • Satoyama • Sathya Sai Baba • Shin-shin-shūkyō • Social anthropology • Philosophy of music (Japan) • Discourse analysis