- Emplacing a Pilgrimage
- Barbara Ambros
- The sacred mountain oyama (literally, “Big Mountain”) has loomed over the religious landscape of early modern Japan.Ambros provides a 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.
- Hardcover 2008
- Localizing Paradise
- D. Max Moerman
- Although located far from the populated centers of traditional Japan, the three Kumano shrines occupied a central position in the Japanese religious landscape. This book encompasses both the historical and the ideological Kumano--not only a stage for the performance of asceticism and pilgrimage, but also a place of the imagination, a topic of literary and artistic representation. By studying Kumano's particular religious landscape, we can better understand the larger, common religious landscape of premodern Japan.
- Hardcover 2006