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  • Shinto - Simple Guides

    by Ian Reader, Simple Guides ...
    Series series Simple Guides
    This book will help you to:Appreciate the significance of Japan's own religion in everyday life.To become familiar with the key traditions and festivals (matsuri) of the Shinto year.To understand what you will see at Shinto shrines and in Shinto ritual.To gain insights into the controversies surrounding Shinto, politics, and nationalism.Access the world's religions with Simple Guides: Religion a s ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Pilgrimage

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ian Reader ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Pilgrimage is found in most religious cultures, with large numbers of sites - from globally renowned places to regional shrines - flourishing historically and in the modern day. Pilgrimage centres around the world, including Mecca in Saudi Arabia, Guadalupe in Mexico, Lourdes in France, Santiago de Compostela in Spain, Haridwar in India, and Shikoku in Japan, attract millions of pilgrims annually, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • On Being Nonreligious in Contemporary Japan

    Decline, Antipathy, and Aversion to Institutions

    by Ian Reader, Clark Chilson ...
    Challenging the notion of the nonreligious in Japan being religious through tradition and institution, this book demonstrates how negativity and antipathy for religion relate to religious decline in Japan today. Why do most Japanese say they are 'nonreligious' (mushukyo)? Since the 1990s, scholars have answered this key question for understanding religion in contemporary Japan as follows: although ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Pilgrims Until We Die

    Unending Pilgrimage in Shikoku

    by Ian Reader, John Shultz ...
    The Shikoku pilgrimage, a 1400 kilometre, eighty-eight temple circuit around Japan's fourth largest island, takes around forty days by foot, or one week by car. Historically, Buddhist ascetics walked it without ceasing, creating a tradition of unending pilgrimage that continues in the present era, both by pilgrims on foot and by others in cars. Some spend decades walking the pilgrimage, while ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Pilgrimage

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ian Reader ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Pilgrimage is found in most religious cultures, with large numbers of sites - from globally renowned places to regional shrines - flourishing historically and in the modern day. Pilgrimage centres around the world, including Mecca in Saudi Arabia, Guadalupe in Mexico, Lourdes in France, Santiago de Compostela in Spain, Haridwar in India, and Shikoku in Japan, attract millions of pilgrims annually, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Religion and Tourism in Japan

    Intersections, Images, Policies and Problems

    by Ian Reader ...
    In this study, Ian Reader presents new insights into the relationship between religion and tourism more generally and into the contemporary religious situation in Japan. He counteracts scholarship that claims tourism increases religious activity, shows that tourism is a factor in increasing secularization in Japan and draws attention to the role of the state in such contexts.Although the Japanese ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Religious Violence in Contemporary Japan

    The Case of Aum Shinrikyo

    by Ian Reader ...
    The Tokyo subway attack in March 1995 was just one of a series of criminal activities including murder, kidnapping, extortion, and the illegal manufacture of arms and drugs carried out by the Japanese new religious movement Aum Shinrikyo, under the guidance of its leader Asahara Shoko. Reader looks at Aum's claims about itself and asks, why did a religious movement ostensibly focussed on yoga, ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

  • Buddhist Tourism in Asia

    by Mark Michael Rowe, David Geary, John Marston, John N. Miksic, Matthew Steven Mitchell, Brian J. Nichols, Ian Reader, Justin R. Ritzinger, Matthew J. Trew, Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg ...
    Series series Contemporary Buddhism
    This innovative collaborative work—the first to focus on Buddhist tourism—explores how Buddhists, government organizations, business corporations, and individuals in Asia participate in re-imaginings of Buddhism through tourism. Contributors from religious studies, anthropology, and art history examine sacred places and religious monuments as they have been shaped and reshaped by socioeconomic and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Japanese Religions Past and Present

    by Esben Andreasen, Ian Reader, Finn Stefansson ...
    Each of the eight chapters deals with a specific topic, such as Shinto, Buddhism, the new religions, and Christianity; there is an introduction that outlines the subject to be considered followed by a series of readings. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Pilgrimage in the Marketplace

    by Ian Reader ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Pilgrimage, Religious Travel and Tourism
    The study of pilgrimage often centres itself around miracles and spontaneous populist activities. While some of these activities and stories may play an important role in the emergence of potential pilgrimage sites and in helping create wider interest in them, this book demonstrates that the dynamics of the marketplace, including marketing and promotional activities by priests and secular interest ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Japanese Influences and Presences in Asia

    by Ian Reader, Marie Soederberg ...
    While scholarly works on this topic have to date mainly concentrated on Japan's influences in economic and political terms, this volume examines Japanese influences in Asia from a broader perspective. The text takes into account human factors, such as the presence of Japanese people as workers, managers and visitors in Asian societies and the flow of Japanese goods in terms on their impact on ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Japanese Religions on the Internet

    Innovation, Representation, and Authority

    Edited by Erica Baffelli, Ian Reader, Birgit Staemmler ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Religion, Media and Culture
    Japanese Religions on the Internet draws attention to how religion is being presented, represented and discussed on the Japanese Internet. Its intention is to contribute to wider discussions about religion and the Internet by providing an important example – based on one of the Internet’s most prominent languages – of how new media technologies are being used and are impacting on religion in the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD