Mountain Mandalas: Shugendo In Kyushu (Bloomsbury Shinto Studies) - 9781474249003

Machine generated contents note: -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Organization of the Book -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Translation and Text1. Shugendo and the Production of Social Space -- Kyushu Island: an ignored world -- The Hachiman cult's nebulous origins -- Usa: from prehistoric village to cultic city -- Oracular pronouncements as divine directives -- The early Heian period: Iwashimizu Hachiman -- The Kunisaki Peninsula's links to Usa -- Mount Hiko2. Geotyped and Chronotyped Social Spaces -- Hachiman's traveling icons -- Mount Hiko: of swords, meteors, dragons, and goshawks -- Waiting for dawn on Mount Hiko: the geotype and chronotype of heterotopia -- Mount Hiko's Sacred Perimeter: four corners and three dimensions -- Altitude and altered states of mind: creating a Dojo -- Mandala templates: divine planning -- Geotyped and chronotyped, encoded, mandalized bodies -- The visionary imperative3. Festivities and Processions: Spatialities of Power -- Mount Hiko as a socio-ritualized space -- Mount Hiko's conflicts with Mount Homan and the Shogo-in monzeki -- Mount Hiko's ritual calendar -- The New Year's shusho tsuina rite: expel and invite -- The shusho goo rite: paper, pill, oath -- The kissho shugi rite: sanctioning power and rank -- Mountain sanctuaries awash in seawater: the shioitori rite -- For the birds: the Zokei goku rite -- The Matsue and Ondasai ritual festivities -- Mineiri: the mandalized peregrinations -- Mandalized itineraries -- Practices in the mountains -- The Daigyoji shrines and water -- Usa Hachiman's oracular spatialities -- Kunisaki: a much-disturbed heterotopia -- The geognostic realm of the lotus in Kunisaki -- Coursing through the peninsula4. Shattered Bodies, Statues, and the Appeal of Truncated Memory -- Mount Hiko's quasi-destruction and fall into irrelevance -- Kunisaki: one breath away from the void of modernity -- Hachiman's return in disguise -- Afterword: From Spatialities to Dislocation -- Rays of lightGlossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

• | Author: Allan G. Grapard, Fabio Rambelli
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: Feb 25, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 320 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Religion
• | ISBN-10: 1474249000
• | ISBN-13: 9781474249003