[PDF.20ya] The Fox and the Jewel: Shared and Private Meanings in Contemporary Japanese Inari Worship

The Fox and the Jewel: Shared and Private Meanings in Contemporary Japanese Inari Worship

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 | #997981 in Books |  University of Hawaii Press |  1998-12-01 |  1998-12-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.65 x5.98l,.95 | File type: PDF | 288 pages

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Jewel of a Book|By Beth L. Cato|While this book is targeted at more academic readers, I found it to be fascinating and highly relevant to my research. Smyers explores the nature of Inari within Japanese culture: how Inari is regarded in different ways by specific temples of Buddhism, Shintoism, and by different approaches of shamanism; how Inari is depicted as male or female, o| |A well written and detailed report on a religious phenomenon that can be found throughout Japan, and even in Japanese diasporas.-- "Journal of Japanese Studies"

A highly focused anthropological study that has all the academic virtues ... comb

The deity Inari has been worshipped in Japan since at least the early eighth century and today is a revered presence in such varied venues as Shinto shrines, Buddhist temples, factories, theaters, private households, restaurants, beauty shops, and rice fields. Although at first glance and to its many devotees Inari worship may seem to be a unified phenomenon, it is in fact exceedingly multiple, noncodified, and noncentralized. No single regulating institution, dogma, ...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.The Fox and the Jewel: Shared and Private Meanings in Contemporary Japanese Inari Worship   |  Karen A. Smyers.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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