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Provides an ethnographic rendering of religious rituals and ascetic practices at the Akakura Mountain Shrine in northern Japan. This book explains that spiritual practice at the Akakura shrine is motivated by the efforts of women and men to comprehend and manage contradictory obligations and desires…

Immortal Wishes

Labor and Transcendence on a Japanese Sacred Mountain

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  • Paperback

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    16 April 2003

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9780822330622
ISBN-10:0822330628
Author:Ellen Schattschneider
Publisher:Duke University Press
Imprint:Duke University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:16 April 2003
Weight:422g
Dimensions:21mm x 163mm x 230mm
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Immortal Wishes by Ellen Schattschneider - ISBN: 9780822330622
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Critics Review

“In this pioneering study of ascetic ritual practice in northern Honshu, Japan, Ellen Schattschneider takes what, in other hands, could have been a more traditional subject and infuses it with a conceptual sharpness that makes its analyses of interest to far more than specialists in religion, Japan, or nature-based worship.” Anne Allison, Duke University “Rich in ethnographic detail on a topic that is fascinating and important, Immortal Wishes is a very clear description and analysis of the actual doing of mountain ascetic discipline, and of its theological, emotional, and social context.” L. Keith Brown, University of Pittsburgh

About The Author

Ellen Schattschneider

Ellen Schattschneider is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University.

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