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| Spiritual Therapies in Japan | ||
| 作者 | Gaitanidis, Ioannis |
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| 出處題名 | Japanese Journal of Religious Studies |
| 卷期 | v.39 n.2 |
| 出版日期 | 2012 |
| 頁次 | 353 - 385 |
| 出版者 | Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture=南山宗教文化研究所 |
| 出版者網址 | http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/ |
| 出版地 | 名古屋, 日本 [Nagoya, Japan] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Ioannis Gaitanidis is a postdoctoral researcher at Kokugakuin University and an associate researcher at the White Rose East Asia Centre(University of Leeds and Sheffield). |
| 關鍵詞 | spiritual; healing; new religions; nihonjinron; self-cultivation; Ehara Hiroyuki |
| 摘要 | As the media-driven “spiritual boom” that hit Japan in the last decade starts to fade away, the therapies that this phenomenon popularized among fans of everything termed “spiritual” continue to be carried out in small circles of practitioners and their most fervent clients. This article places these “spiritual therapies” within the long history of healing rites in Japan by showing that their current appeal can be explained by two factors. First, these therapies are conspicuously similar to techniques used by New Religious Movements in Japan. Secondly, the cultural criticism promoted by these therapies remains characteristic of modern occult theories and practices and has only been readapted today to suit the peculiar symbolic vacuum of post-Aum Japanese society. Finally, the author focuses on the self-cultivation element that remains central in Japanese healing methods, and argues that spiritual therapies seem to have simplified self-cultivation to such an extent that they reinforce a generalized discourse about ethnicity and about whose way of life (Japanese or American) is best suited to a Japanese clientèle. |
| ISSN | 03041042 (P) |
| 點閱次數 | 843 |
| 建檔日期 | 2013.04.16 |
| 更新日期 | 2017.09.14 |
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