Ichiro Hori’s scientific contributions

... Blacker 1975;Sakurai 1974), ascetic practices (e.g. Hori 1968;Suzuki 1991; see also Suzuki 2015), or practices of self-mummification (e.g. Raveri 1992) focused on the symbolic use of the body, and on its relations with the broader "culture." ...

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Feeling (with) Japan: affective, sensory and material entanglements in the field

... Окрім джерел з історії архітектури в статті представлена низка робіт з історії культури та релігії, зокрема книги та публікації авторів: київського історика релігії і богослова Глаголєва С.С. [17], православного японського місіонера архієпископа Миколая [18], історика релігії Kitagawa J.M. [19], румунського історика релігії і філософа Eliade M. [20] та американського мистецтвознавця Warner L. [21]. ...

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SACRED ARCHITECTURE OF BUDDHISM AND SHINTO BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF ACTIVE CULTURAL INTERACTION BETWEEN CHINA AND JAPAN

... Rather than through a Western lens, the disparate practices and beliefs of Shinto should instead be seen by comparison as a highly syncretic tradition grounded in animistic ideas, Buddhism, Taoist notions, Confucianist worldviews and Christian beliefs and traditions (Fiadotau, 2017;Navarro Remesal, 2017). Japanese religion remains, in practice, exemplary for a more "flat," non-hierarchical and syncretistic perspective drawing from disparate sources of folklore, popular culture and traditions outside of Japan (Hori, 1994;Kamstra, 1967;Porcu, 2014). Indeed, religion is represented in Japanese popular culture as inherently playfultransgressing boundaries between the sacred and the profane; manga heroes and religious saints and, ultimately, combining elements from different religious traditions (Occhi 2012;Walter 2014), in games and their transmedia franchises (Hutchinson, 2019;Blom, 2020). ...

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Opening my Shinto Box: The Mixing of Religions, Traditions and Fictions in Japanese Role-Playing Games

... That is to say, they are dependent on various cultural context, and they change in the course of history. (Eliade in Hori 1968, 185) Not everyone can become a shaman: ...

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Social Context of the fujo: Shamanism in Japan through a Female Perspective