Emplacing a pilgrimage : the Ōyama cult and regional religion in early modern Japan / Barbara Ambro...
Emplacing a pilgrimage : the Ōyama cult and regional religion in early modern Japan / Barbara Ambro...
Emplacing a pilgrimage : the Ōyama cult and regional religion in early modern Japan / Barbara Ambros.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2008.
Date
2008.
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N229.56135/4
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English
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xiii, 330 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction: The Oyama Cult in Regional History -- 1. From a Mountain Retreat to a Pilgrimage Center -- 2. A Regional Kogi Shingon Academy -- 3. The Emergence of the Oyama Oshi -- 4. Managing the Mountain -- 5. The Emergence of a Regional Pilgrimage -- 6. Reconfiguring the Pantheon -- 7. A New Orde...
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2008.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2008.
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"Barbara Ambros provides a detailed narrative history of the mountain and its place in contemporary society and popular religion by focusing on the development of the Oyama cult and its religious, political, and socioeconomic contexts. Richly illustrated and carefully researched, this study emphasizes the importance of "site" or "region" in conside...
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Emplacing a pilgrimage : the Ōyama cult and regional religion in early modern Japan / Barbara Ambros.
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Harvard East Asian monographs ; 297.
Harvard East Asian monographs ; 297.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N229.56135/4
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9780674027756 (cloth : alk. paper)
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299.561350952136
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991000046499702626
