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Kyoto's Gion Festival A Social History

Teeuwen Mark
Innbundet / 2023 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781350229921
Publisert
2023-02-09
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
288

Forfatter
Teeuwen Mark

Om bidragsyterne

Mark Teeuwen is Professor of Japanese Studies at Oslo University, Norway. He has published broadly on the history of Japanese religion, and is the co-author of A History of the Ise Shrines: Divine Capital (Bloomsbury, 2017).

Kyoto's Gion Festival A Social History

Teeuwen Mark
Innbundet / 2023 / Engelsk
Teeuwen Mark
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An outstanding history of one of the most important festivals in Japan. Situating the Gion Festival firmly within the social and political history of the ancient capital of Kyoto, Mark Teeuwen paints a dramatic picture of how the structure, sponsorship and meanings of the <i>Gion matsuri</i> have changed over the centuries. This vibrant history should be of interest to scholars of festivals, cities, historical change and contemporary rituals.

Sarah Thal, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

[<i>Kyoto's Gion Festival</i>] presents in detail ... how different interest groups influenced the development of the Gion festival, and by doing so, it sheds light on nationwide political and religious processes that have been reforming, time and again, Japanese society and the shifting self-understanding of its people.

- Lehel Balogh, Hokkaido University, Japan, Religious Studies Review

This book focuses on the long history of what is arguably the most prestigious and influential festival in Japan – Kyoto’s Gion festival. It explores this history from the festival’s origins in the late 10th century to its post-war revival, drawing on Japanese historical studies and archival materials as well as the author's participant observation fieldwork. Exploring the social and political networks that have kept this festival alive for over a millennium, this book reveals how it has endured multiple reinventions. In particular, it identifies how at each historical juncture, different groups have found new purposes for the festival and adapted this costly enterprise to suit their own ends. The history of this festival not only sheds light on the development of Japanese festival culture as a whole, but also offers a window on Kyoto’s history and provides a testing ground for recent festival theory.
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Introduction1. Origins and the Festival’s First Phase (c. 900-1200)2. The Medieval Transformation of the Festival (c. 1200-1467)3. The Revival of the Festival and its Early Modern Consolidation (1500-1871)4. The Crisis of Modernity: the Festival’s Decline and Reinvention (1871-1942)5. The Post-war Revival and Contemporary Dynamics (1947-today)6. ConclusionBibliographyIndex
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First study of Japan's most famous festival from its origins to the present day
The Shinto tradition is an essential component of Japanese religious culture. In addition to indigenous elements, it contains aspects mediated from Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and, in more recent times, Western religious culture as well—plus, various forms of hybridization among all of these different traditions. Despite its cultural and historical importance, Shinto Studies have failed to attract wide attention partly due to the lingering effects of Japanese ultranationalist propaganda during World War II that made use of aspects of Shinto. The Series makes available to a broad audience a number of important academic works that help dispel widespread misconceptions, according to which Shinto is intrinsically related to Japanese nationalism and constitutes the essence of Japanese culture. By putting such stereotypes into perspective, the series promotes further research and understanding of what is still an underdeveloped field.Editorial BoardIrit Averbuch, Associate Professor of Japanese Culture, Tel Aviv University, Israel Erica Baffelli, Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies, University of Manchester, UK Heather Blair, Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, USAJohn Breen, Professor of Japanese History, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan Bernard Faure, Professor of Japanese Religions, Columbia University, New York, USAAllan Grapard, Professor of Japanese Religions Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara, USAHelen Hardacre, Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society, Harvard University, USASato Hiroo, Professor of Japanese Intellectual History, Tohoku University, JapanMax Moerman, Associate Professor of Japanese Religions, Barnard College at Columbia University, USA Bernhard Scheid, Senior Researcher, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, AustriaMark Teeuwen, Professor of Japanese Cultural history, Oslo University, NorwaySarah Thal, Associate Professor of Japanese History, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
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An outstanding history of one of the most important festivals in Japan. Situating the Gion Festival firmly within the social and political history of the ancient capital of Kyoto, Mark Teeuwen paints a dramatic picture of how the structure, sponsorship and meanings of the <i>Gion matsuri</i> have changed over the centuries. This vibrant history should be of interest to scholars of festivals, cities, historical change and contemporary rituals.

Sarah Thal, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

[<i>Kyoto's Gion Festival</i>] presents in detail ... how different interest groups influenced the development of the Gion festival, and by doing so, it sheds light on nationwide political and religious processes that have been reforming, time and again, Japanese society and the shifting self-understanding of its people.

- Lehel Balogh, Hokkaido University, Japan, Religious Studies Review

This book focuses on the long history of what is arguably the most prestigious and influential festival in Japan – Kyoto’s Gion festival. It explores this history from the festival’s origins in the late 10th century to its post-war revival, drawing on Japanese historical studies and archival materials as well as the author's participant observation fieldwork. Exploring the social and political networks that have kept this festival alive for over a millennium, this book reveals how it has endured multiple reinventions. In particular, it identifies how at each historical juncture, different groups have found new purposes for the festival and adapted this costly enterprise to suit their own ends. The history of this festival not only sheds light on the development of Japanese festival culture as a whole, but also offers a window on Kyoto’s history and provides a testing ground for recent festival theory.
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Introduction1. Origins and the Festival’s First Phase (c. 900-1200)2. The Medieval Transformation of the Festival (c. 1200-1467)3. The Revival of the Festival and its Early Modern Consolidation (1500-1871)4. The Crisis of Modernity: the Festival’s Decline and Reinvention (1871-1942)5. The Post-war Revival and Contemporary Dynamics (1947-today)6. ConclusionBibliographyIndex
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The Shinto tradition is an essential component of Japanese religious culture. In addition to indigenous elements, it contains aspects mediated from Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and, in more recent times, Western religious culture as well—plus, various forms of hybridization among all of these different traditions. Despite its cultural and historical importance, Shinto Studies have failed to attract wide attention partly due to the lingering effects of Japanese ultranationalist propaganda during World War II that made use of aspects of Shinto. The Series makes available to a broad audience a number of important academic works that help dispel widespread misconceptions, according to which Shinto is intrinsically related to Japanese nationalism and constitutes the essence of Japanese culture. By putting such stereotypes into perspective, the series promotes further research and understanding of what is still an underdeveloped field.Editorial BoardIrit Averbuch, Associate Professor of Japanese Culture, Tel Aviv University, Israel Erica Baffelli, Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies, University of Manchester, UK Heather Blair, Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, USAJohn Breen, Professor of Japanese History, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan Bernard Faure, Professor of Japanese Religions, Columbia University, New York, USAAllan Grapard, Professor of Japanese Religions Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara, USAHelen Hardacre, Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society, Harvard University, USASato Hiroo, Professor of Japanese Intellectual History, Tohoku University, JapanMax Moerman, Associate Professor of Japanese Religions, Barnard College at Columbia University, USA Bernhard Scheid, Senior Researcher, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, AustriaMark Teeuwen, Professor of Japanese Cultural history, Oslo University, NorwaySarah Thal, Associate Professor of Japanese History, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350229921
Publisert
2023-02-09
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
288

Forfatter
Teeuwen Mark

Om bidragsyterne

Mark Teeuwen is Professor of Japanese Studies at Oslo University, Norway. He has published broadly on the history of Japanese religion, and is the co-author of A History of the Ise Shrines: Divine Capital (Bloomsbury, 2017).

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