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Winner of the 2022 Association for the Study of Japanese Mountain
Religion Book Prize Defining Shugendo brings together leading
international experts on Japanese mountain asceticism to discuss
what has been an essential component of Japanese religions for more
than a thousand years. Contributors explore how mountains have been
abodes of deities, a resting place for the dead, sources of natural
bounty and calamities, places of religious activities, and a vast
repository of symbols. The book shows that many peoples have chosen
them as sites for ascetic practices, claiming the potential to
attain supernatural powers there. This book discusses the history
of scholarship on Shugendo, the development process of mountain
worship, and the religious and philosophical features of devotion
at specific sacred mountains. Moreover, it reveals the rich
material and visual culture associated with Shugendo, from statues
and steles, to talismans and written oaths.
Winner of the 2022 Association for the Study of Japanese Mountain
Religion Book Prize Defining Shugendo brings together leading
international experts on Japanese mountain asceticism to discuss
what has been an essential component of Japanese religions for more
than a thousand years. Contributors explore how mountains have been
abodes of deities, a resting place for the dead, sources of natural
bounty and calamities, places of religious activities, and a vast
repository of symbols. The book shows that many peoples have chosen
them as sites for ascetic practices, claiming the potential to
attain supernatural powers there. This book discusses the history
of scholarship on Shugendo, the development process of mountain
worship, and the religious and philosophical features of devotion
at specific sacred mountains. Moreover, it reveals the rich
material and visual culture associated with Shugendo, from statues
and steles, to talismans and written oaths.
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