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When people create new societies, economies, and nations--both now and in the past--they create gods, rituals, and miracles to support them. Even what seem to be some of the most timeless and sacred sites in the world have been shaped, reshaped, and reinterpreted by countless people to produce oases of peace and nature today.
Using miracle tales, votive plaques, diaries, and newspapers, Sarah Thal traces such changes at one of the most popular Japanese pilgrimage sites of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the shrine of Konpira on the island of Shikoku. This rich and fascinating history explores how people from all walks of life gave shape to the gods, shrines, and rituals so often attributed to ancient, indigenous Japan. Thal shows how worshippers and priests, rulers and entrepreneurs, repeatedly rebuilt and reinterpreted Konpira to reflect their needs and aspirations in a changing world--and how, in doing so, they helped shape the structures of the modern state, economy, and society in turn.
"Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods" will be welcomed by all scholars of Japanese history and by students of religion interested in the construction of modernity.
Using miracle tales, votive plaques, diaries, and newspapers, Sarah Thal traces such changes at one of the most popular Japanese pilgrimage sites of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the shrine of Konpira on the island of Shikoku. This rich and fascinating history explores how people from all walks of life gave shape to the gods, shrines, and rituals so often attributed to ancient, indigenous Japan. Thal shows how worshippers and priests, rulers and entrepreneurs, repeatedly rebuilt and reinterpreted Konpira to reflect their needs and aspirations in a changing world--and how, in doing so, they helped shape the structures of the modern state, economy, and society in turn.
"Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods" will be welcomed by all scholars of Japanese history and by students of religion interested in the construction of modernity.
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Sarah Thal is assistant professor of history at Rice University.
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This is one of the most important and interesting studies of Japanese religion I have read in years. Sarah Thal's focus on one religious site allows her to get past the often unhelpful categories of "Buddhism" "Shinto" and "Shugendo"--instead getting at the historical changes, shifts, reinterpretations, and renegotiations centered on this ever changing religious site very convincingly. Her discussion of the changes transpiring during the Meiji Restoration and after are extremely careful and insightful, shedding the most invaluable light on this key turning point since James Ketelaar's classic "Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan." The book also carefully balances the socioeconomic, political realities within which the religious site operates with the deep, sincere meanings people bring to it--even showing how these two facets interact. On top of all of this, the writing style of this work is extremely clear and evocative. This is a first-rate work of rigorous scholarship that is a joy to read.
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