Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Mark Teeuwen is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has published widely on the history of Japanese religions, with a special focus on Shinto. His books include Watarai Shinto: An Intellectual History of the Outer Shrine in Ise (1996) and A New History of Shinto (2010), co-authored by John Breen.
John Breen is Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Japan. He has published widely on the imperial institution and religion and state in modern Japan. His books include A New History of Shinto (2010), co-authored with Mark Teeuwen, Girei to kenryoku: Tenno no Meiji ishin (2011) and Shinto monogatari: Ise no kingendaishi (2015).
Teeuwen and Breen present the narrative strata that make up Ise’s historical identity and recount a dynamic history in which the Ise shrines have been transformed many times over the centuries. The result of their thorough research is a fascinating and eye-opening book, an excellent resource for both researchers and teachers in the field of Japanese religions.
Reading Religion
Offers a rich, multifaceted account and analysis of the Ise Shrines.
Monumenta Nipponica
A welcome contribution to the English-language scholarship on this important site in Japan’s religious, political, and cultural imagination ... The authors efficiently synthesize voluminous information and trace complex relationships between different actors by adhering to three analytical strategies, an approach that allows the volume’s narrative to flow relatively seamlessly.
Journal of Religion in Japan
In this engaging social history of the Ise Shrines, Mark Teeuwen and John Breen challenge cherished notions holding that Ise is the primal locus of Shinto, unifying and providing the standard for all other Shinto shrines since ancient times … Their book is a balanced and authoritative study of a central subject in the history of Japanese religions that will be warmly welcomed and widely appreciated.
- Helen Hardacre, Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society, Harvard University, USA,
This book takes us on a journey into the multilayered history of the Ise Shrines … The book is very well documented and sharp and is a must read study for scholars and students interested in Shinto, religion, and Japan.
- Elisabetta Porcu, Senior Lecturer in Asian Religions, University of Cape Town, South Africa,
<p>This book is ... highly recommended to students of Japanese religious history.</p>
Religious Studies Review
The Ise shrine complex is among Japan’s most enduring national symbols, and A Social History of the Ise Shrines: Divine Capital is the first book to trace the history of the shrines from their beginnings in the seventh century until the present day. Ise enshrines the Sun Goddess Amaterasu, the imperial ancestress and the most prominent among kami deities, and has played a vital role in Japan’s social, political and religious history. The most popular pilgrims’ attraction in the land from the sixteenth century onwards, in 2013 the Ise complex once again captured the nation’s attention as it underwent its periodic rebuilding, performed once every twenty years.
Mark Teeuwen and John Breen demonstrate that the Ise Shrines underwent drastic re-inventions as a result of on-going contestation between different groups of people in different historical periods. They focus on the agents responsible for these re-inventions, the nature of the economic, political and ideological measures they took, and the specific techniques they deployed to ensure that Ise survived one crisis after another in the course of its long history.
This book questions major assumptions about Ise, notably the idea that Ise has always been defined by its imperial connections, and that it has always been a site of Shinto. Written by leading authorities in the field of Shinto studies, this is the essential history of Japan’s most significant sacred site.
List of Maps and Illustrations
Prologue
Note to the Reader
Introduction: Divine capital: Ise and its agents
Chapter 1. Divine wrath and court politics
Chapter 2. Classical Ise: Hosophobia codified
Chapter 3. Amaterasu’s escape from Ise
Chapter 4. Ise in the Kamakura period: Lands and secrets
Chapter 5. Ise in the Muromachi period: War and pilgrims
Chapter 6. Ise restored and Shintoised
Chapter 7. Pilgrims’ pleasures: Ise and its patrons in the Edo period
Chapter 8. Meiji Ise: The emperor’s mausoleum and the modern pilgrim
Chapter 9. Ise and nation in Taisho and early Showa Japan
Chapter 10. Crisis and recovery: Ise’s postwar transformations
Conclusion: Phases of redevelopment
Notes
References
Index
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 Board
Irit 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, USA
John Breen, Professor of Japanese History, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan
Bernard Faure, Professor of Japanese Religions, Columbia University, New York, USA
Allan Grapard, Professor of Japanese Religions Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Helen Hardacre, Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society, Harvard University, USA
Sato Hiroo, Professor of Japanese Intellectual History, Tohoku University, Japan
Max Moerman, Associate Professor of Japanese Religions, Barnard College at Columbia University, USA
Bernhard Scheid, Senior Researcher, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Mark Teeuwen, Professor of Japanese Cultural history, Oslo University, Norway
Sarah Thal, Associate Professor of Japanese History, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Mark Teeuwen is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has published widely on the history of Japanese religions, with a special focus on Shinto. His books include Watarai Shinto: An Intellectual History of the Outer Shrine in Ise (1996) and A New History of Shinto (2010), co-authored by John Breen.
John Breen is Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Japan. He has published widely on the imperial institution and religion and state in modern Japan. His books include A New History of Shinto (2010), co-authored with Mark Teeuwen, Girei to kenryoku: Tenno no Meiji ishin (2011) and Shinto monogatari: Ise no kingendaishi (2015).