| Description |
1 online resource (x, 237 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Women in religions |
|
Women in religions.
|
| Contents |
Introduction: Why study women in Japanese religions? -- The prehistorical Japanese archipelago: Fertility cults and shaman queens -- Ancient Japanese mythology: Female divinities and immortals -- The introduction of Buddhism: Nuns, lay patrons, and popular devotion -- The Heian period: Women in Buddhism and court ritual -- The medieval period: Buddhist reform movements and the demonization of femininity -- The Edo period: Confucianism, nativism, and popular religion -- Imperial Japan: Good wives and wise mothers -- The postwar period: Nostalgia, religion, and the reinvention of femininity -- The lost decades: Gender and religion in flux |
| Summary |
"Drawing on a diverse collection of writings by and about women, Ambros argues that ambivalent religious discourses in Japan have not simply subordinated women but also given them religious resources to pursue their own interests and agendas. Comprising nine chapters organized chronologically, the book begins with the archeological evidence of fertility cults and the early shamanic ruler Himiko in prehistoric Japan and ends with an examination of the influence of feminism and demographic changes on religious practices during the "lost decades" of the post-1990 era. By viewing Japanese religious history through the eyes of women, Women in Japanese Religions presents a new narrative that offers strikingly different vistas of Japan's pluralistic traditions than the received accounts that foreground male religious figures and male-dominated institutions."--Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Questions for discussion (pages 177-179) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-225) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
|
English |
|
Online resource; title from e-book title screen (JSTOR platform, viewed March 8, 2016) |
|
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Women and religion -- Japan -- History
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
|
|
RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
|
|
RELIGION -- Essays.
|
|
RELIGION -- Reference.
|
|
Religion.
|
|
Women and religion
|
|
Religion -- historia -- Japan.
|
|
Buddhism.
|
|
Konfucianism.
|
|
Mytologi.
|
|
Kvinnorollen.
|
|
Nunnor.
|
|
Moderskap.
|
|
Feminism.
|
|
Fruktsamhet -- kult.
|
|
Religion -- history -- Japan.
|
|
Buddhism.
|
|
Confucianism.
|
|
Mythology.
|
|
Female role.
|
|
Nuns.
|
|
Motherhood.
|
|
Feminism.
|
|
Fertility -- cult.
|
|
Religion -- Japan. -- History.
|
|
Kvinnor och religion -- historia.
|
|
Religion.
|
|
Japan
|
| Genre/Form |
History
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| LC no. |
2014047907 |
| ISBN |
1479898694 |
|
9781479898695 |
|
1479836516 |
|
9781479836512 |
|
