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