Buddhas and kami in Japan : honji suijaku as a combinatory paradigm / edited by Mark Teeuwen and Fabio Rambelli.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-353) and index.

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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: combinatory religion and the honji suijaku paradigm in pre-modern Japan; From thunder child to Dharma-protector: Dj hshi and the Buddhist appropriation of Japanese local deities; The source of oracular speech: absence? presence? or plain treachery? The case of Hachiman Usa-g gotakusensh; Wrathful deities and saving deities; The creation of a honji suijaku deity: Amaterasu as the Judge of the Dead; Honji suijaku and the logic of combinatory deities: two case studies.

Wild words and syncretic deities: kygen kigo and honji suijaku in medieval literary allegoresis~Both parts~ or ~only one~? Challenges to the honji suijaku paradigm in the Edo period; Hokke Shinto: kami in the Nichiren tradition; Honji suijaku at work: religion, economics, and ideology in pre-modern Japan; The interaction between Buddhist and Shinto traditions at Suwa Shrine; Dancing the doctrine: honji suijaku thought in kagura performances; Bibliography; In.

This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the combinatory tradition that dominated premodern and early modern Japanese religion, known as honji suijaku (originals and their traces).

English.

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