Immortal Wishes: Labor and Transcendence on a Japanese Sacred Mountain
by Ellen Schattschneider
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Immortal Wishes is a powerful ethnographic rendering of religious experiences of landscape, healing, and self-fashioning on a northern Japanese sacred mountain. Working at the intersection of anthropology, religion, and Japan studies, Ellen Schattschneider focuses on Akakura Mountain Shrine, a popular Shinto institution founded by a rural woman in the 1920s. For decades, local spirit mediums and worshipers, predominantly women, have undertaken extended periods of shugyo (ascetic discipline) show more within the shrine and on the mountain's slopes. Schattschneider argues that their elaborate, transformin show lessTags
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- Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction, Anthropology
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- 299.561 — Religion Other religions Shintoism/Taoism/Other Mythologies Of Asian Origin Religions of Japanese Origin Shinto
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- BL2225 .I832 .A337 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Religions. Mythology. Rationalism Religions. Mythology. Rationalism History and principles of religions Asian. Oriental By region or country Japan Shinto
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