Sacred Heritage in Japan

ISBN-13: 9781032237398 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 222 str.

Aike P. Rots; Mark Teeuwen

Opis

Sacred Heritage in Japan is the first volume to explicitly address the topics of Japanese religion and heritage preservation in connection with each other. The book considers the impact of being designated tangible or intangible cultural properties and, more recently, as UNESCO World or Intangible Heritage

Recenzje

"Following the introduction, eight case studies show how heritage (and religion) is negotiated and contested, politicized, and claimed. Recommended!"
Isabelle Prochaska- Meyer, University of Vienna, Religious Studies Review

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Heritage-Making and the Transformation of Religion in Modern Japan

Mark Teeuwen and Aike P. Rots

Chapter 2 The Politics of Japan’s Use of World Heritage: From Ratifying the World Heritage Convention to the Mozu–Furuichi Tumulus Clusters

Tze M. Loo

Chapter 3 An Introduction to Multilateral Heritage Politics: Japan and the World Heritage Convention

Herdis Hølleland

Chapter 4 World Cultural Heritage and Women’s Exclusion from Sacred Sites in Japan

Lindsey E. DeWitt

Chapter 5 Whose Sacred Site? Contesting World Heritage at Sefa Utaki

Aike P. Rots

Chapter 6 What Does it Mean to Become UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage? The Case of aenokoto

Kikuchi Akira

Chapter 7 Kyoto’s Gion Float Parade as Heritage: Between Culture, Religion, and Faith

Mark Teeuwen

Chapter 8 The Story Beyond UNESCO: Local Buddhist Temples and the Heritage of Survival in Regional Japan

Paulina K. Kolata

Chapter 9 Omissions, Stratagems, and Dissent: The Shikoku Pilgrimage and the Problems of Applying for World Heritage Status

Ian Reader

O autorze

Aike P. Rots is Associate Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Oslo. His research interests include religion and the environment, ritual and sacred space, human–nature relations, and the politics of religion in contemporary East and Southeast Asia.

Mark Teeuwen is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Oslo. His field of research is the history of religion in Japan.