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Alternate Currents - Reiki’s Circulation in the Twentieth-Century North Pacific
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In the second half of the twentieth century, Reiki went from an
obscure therapy practiced by a few thousand Japanese and Japanese
Americans to a global phenomenon. By the early twenty-first
century, people in nearly every corner of the world have undergone
the initiations that authorize them to channel a cosmic
energy—known as Reiki—to heal body, mind, and spirit. They lay
hands on themselves and others, use secret symbols and incantations
to send Reiki to distant recipients, and strive to follow five
precepts to cultivate their spiritual growth. Reiki’s
international rise and development is due to the work of Hawayo
Takata (1900–1980), a Hawai‘i-born Japanese American woman who
brought Reiki out of Japan and adapted it for thousands of students
in Hawai‘i and North America, shaping interconnections across the
North Pacific region as well as cultural transformations over the
transwar period spanning World War II. Alternate Currents:
Reiki’s Circulation in the Twentieth-Century North Pacific
analyzes how, from her training in Japan in the mid-1930s to her
death in Iowa in 1980, Takata built a vast trans-Pacific network
that connected Japanese American laborers on Hawai‘i plantations
to social elites in Tokyo, Hollywood, and New York; middle class
housewives in American suburbs; and off-the-grid tree planters in
the mountains of British Columbia. Using recently uncovered
archival materials and original oral histories, Stein examines how
these relationships between healer and patient, master and
disciple, became deeply infused with values of their time and place
and how they interplayed with Reiki’s circulation, performance,
and meanings along with broader cultural shifts in the
twentieth-century North Pacific. Highly readable and informative,
each chapter is structured around a period in the life of Takata,
the charismatic, rags-to-riches architect of the network in which
Reiki spread for decades. Alternate Currents explores Reiki as an
exemplary transnational spiritual therapy, demonstrating how lived
practices transcend artificial distinctions between religion and
medicine, and circulate in global systems while maintaining strong
connections with the practices’ homeland.
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Imprint: |
University of Hawaii Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
Authors: |
Justin B. Stein
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
304 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8248-9566-2 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8248-9566-5 |
Barcode: |
9780824895662 |
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