{"product_id":"matsuri-and-religion-complexity-continuity-and-creativity-in-japanese-festivals-9789004466524","title":"Matsuri and Religion: Complexity, Continuity, and Creativity in Japanese Festivals","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBringing together the innovative work of scholars from a variety of disciplines, Matsuri and Religion explores festivals in Japan through their interconnectedness to religious life in both urban and rural communities. Each chapter, informed by extensive ethnographic engagement, focuses on a specific festival to unpack the role of religion in collective ritualized activities. With attention to contemporary performance and historical transformation, the study sheds light on understandings of change, identity and community, as well as questions regarding intangible cultural heritage, tourism, and the intersection of religion with politics. Read as a whole, the volume provides a uniquely multi-sited ethnographic, historical, and theoretical study, contributing to discourses on religion and festival\/ritual\/performance in Japan and elsewhere around the globe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  Notes on Contributors  List of Figures    1 Introduction   Matsuri and Religion in Japan   Michael Dylan Foster (, , ) and Elisabetta Porcu (, , )       2 Displaying Mythological Characters   Changes in the Meanings of Decorations in the Sawara Grand Festival in Chiba, Japan   Tsukahara Shinji 塚原伸治 (, , )Jude Pultz      3 Gion Matsuri in Kyoto   A Multilayered Religious Phenomenon   Elisabetta Porcu (, , )      4 Sannō Matsuri   Fabricating Festivals in Modern Japan   John Breen (, , )      5 Eloquent Plasticity   Vernacular Religion, Change, and Namahage   Michael Dylan Foster (, , )      6 Kuma Matsuri   Bear Hunters as Intermediaries between Humans and Nature   Scott Schnell (, , )      7 Fire, Prayer, and Purification   Early Winter Events and Folk Beliefs in Kyoto   Yagi Tōru 八木透 (, , )      8 Encounters with the Past   Fractals and Atmospheres at Kasuga Wakamiya Onmatsuri   Andrea Giolai (, , )      9 Demographic Change in Contemporary Rural Japan and Its Impact on Ritual Practices   Susanne Klien (, , )      10 Photographic Essay: Secret Eroticism and Lived Religion   The Art of Matsuri Photography   Michael Dylan Foster (, , ) and Ogano Minoru 小賀野実 (Photographer, Saitama City, Japan)      Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210825851223,"sku":"9789004466524","price":71.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/matsuri-and-religion-complexity-continuity-and-creativity-in-japanese-festivals-9789004466524","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}