Author: Laura Miller
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824898311
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
In Japan today, women are the primary drivers of religious re-enchantment, and they are exerting pressure on shrines, temples, and the media industries to accommodate their interests and aesthetic tastes. Employing a semantically broad meaning of “occult” to include the mysterious or supernatural, Laura Miller examines how it manifests to offer avenues of self-exploration and spiritual capital that fundamentally appeal to women. Female seekers have had a major impact on the fashioning and marketing of spiritual sites, texts, and objects, often through encoding the kawaii, or cute, aesthetic. Miller makes the case that the gendered nature of occult hunting has been neglected in research and that greater attention to gendered perspectives reveals significant facets of sociality and recreation. Written from an interdisciplinary cultural studies perspective, Occult Hunting and Supernatural Play in Japan interlaces history, art, literature, religion, media studies, and anthropology to explore ubiquitous yet understudied activities such as having one’s fortune told; visiting “powerspots,” locations thought to hold exceptional supernatural energy; and playing with new types of tarot decks. Book chapters also focus on material religion, including objects like good luck amulets and votive plaques, Taoist paper talismans, pilgrim stamps, and ancient curved beads called magatama. Tracing their histories and transformations, Miller insists that these forms of visual and material religion and their related activities are neither trivial nor simply commercial gambits. Rather, they provide insights into the realms of creative exploration, pleasure, and spiritual development in the lives of girls and young women.
Occult Hunting and Supernatural Play in Japan
Author: Laura Miller
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824898311
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
In Japan today, women are the primary drivers of religious re-enchantment, and they are exerting pressure on shrines, temples, and the media industries to accommodate their interests and aesthetic tastes. Employing a semantically broad meaning of “occult” to include the mysterious or supernatural, Laura Miller examines how it manifests to offer avenues of self-exploration and spiritual capital that fundamentally appeal to women. Female seekers have had a major impact on the fashioning and marketing of spiritual sites, texts, and objects, often through encoding the kawaii, or cute, aesthetic. Miller makes the case that the gendered nature of occult hunting has been neglected in research and that greater attention to gendered perspectives reveals significant facets of sociality and recreation. Written from an interdisciplinary cultural studies perspective, Occult Hunting and Supernatural Play in Japan interlaces history, art, literature, religion, media studies, and anthropology to explore ubiquitous yet understudied activities such as having one’s fortune told; visiting “powerspots,” locations thought to hold exceptional supernatural energy; and playing with new types of tarot decks. Book chapters also focus on material religion, including objects like good luck amulets and votive plaques, Taoist paper talismans, pilgrim stamps, and ancient curved beads called magatama. Tracing their histories and transformations, Miller insists that these forms of visual and material religion and their related activities are neither trivial nor simply commercial gambits. Rather, they provide insights into the realms of creative exploration, pleasure, and spiritual development in the lives of girls and young women.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824898311
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
In Japan today, women are the primary drivers of religious re-enchantment, and they are exerting pressure on shrines, temples, and the media industries to accommodate their interests and aesthetic tastes. Employing a semantically broad meaning of “occult” to include the mysterious or supernatural, Laura Miller examines how it manifests to offer avenues of self-exploration and spiritual capital that fundamentally appeal to women. Female seekers have had a major impact on the fashioning and marketing of spiritual sites, texts, and objects, often through encoding the kawaii, or cute, aesthetic. Miller makes the case that the gendered nature of occult hunting has been neglected in research and that greater attention to gendered perspectives reveals significant facets of sociality and recreation. Written from an interdisciplinary cultural studies perspective, Occult Hunting and Supernatural Play in Japan interlaces history, art, literature, religion, media studies, and anthropology to explore ubiquitous yet understudied activities such as having one’s fortune told; visiting “powerspots,” locations thought to hold exceptional supernatural energy; and playing with new types of tarot decks. Book chapters also focus on material religion, including objects like good luck amulets and votive plaques, Taoist paper talismans, pilgrim stamps, and ancient curved beads called magatama. Tracing their histories and transformations, Miller insists that these forms of visual and material religion and their related activities are neither trivial nor simply commercial gambits. Rather, they provide insights into the realms of creative exploration, pleasure, and spiritual development in the lives of girls and young women.
Performative Linguistic Space
Author: Neriko Musha Doerr
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110744783
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This volume explores "performative linguistic space", namely a space which ushers or hinders linguistic practices. Space is made productive as a result of individuals who bring linguistic politics from diverse spaces into new ones. By moving away from the notions of discrete units of language and linguistic communities associated with a specific space, this volume suggests a fluid productive aspect of space. It goes beyond the assumed space-linguistic community association through ethnographic accounts that mediate linguistic anthropology, cultural geography, sociolinguistics, and deaf studies.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110744783
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This volume explores "performative linguistic space", namely a space which ushers or hinders linguistic practices. Space is made productive as a result of individuals who bring linguistic politics from diverse spaces into new ones. By moving away from the notions of discrete units of language and linguistic communities associated with a specific space, this volume suggests a fluid productive aspect of space. It goes beyond the assumed space-linguistic community association through ethnographic accounts that mediate linguistic anthropology, cultural geography, sociolinguistics, and deaf studies.
World of Darkness
Author: Jim Moore
Publisher: White Wolf Games Studio
ISBN: 9781565042025
Category : Fantasy games
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Though vampires have their intrigues, werewolves have their wars, mages have their realities, wraiths have their passions and changelings seek to return to their homeland, there are supernatural powers at work in the world that concern all of these beings. Indeed, there are people and forces in the world of Darkness that endanger all those who exist. Learn the secrets, alliances, enemies and plans of these shadowy beings in a series of world of Darkness books that can be integrated into all of the storyteller games. Learn how mortals in the Far East deal with their supernatural menaces. Not a Hunter: The Reckoning supplement.
Publisher: White Wolf Games Studio
ISBN: 9781565042025
Category : Fantasy games
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Though vampires have their intrigues, werewolves have their wars, mages have their realities, wraiths have their passions and changelings seek to return to their homeland, there are supernatural powers at work in the world that concern all of these beings. Indeed, there are people and forces in the world of Darkness that endanger all those who exist. Learn the secrets, alliances, enemies and plans of these shadowy beings in a series of world of Darkness books that can be integrated into all of the storyteller games. Learn how mortals in the Far East deal with their supernatural menaces. Not a Hunter: The Reckoning supplement.
Secrets of Japan
Author: Michael Dziesinski
Publisher: Chaosium
ISBN: 9781568821566
Category : Call of Cthulhu (Game)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Present-Day Exploration of The Land of The Rising Sun--As we start the twenty-first century few corners of the world remain unexplored and unilluminated by the lamp of reason in this scientific age. The fewer places there are to hide, the more bewildering and shocking the experience when we suddenly face cosmic terror. In this meticulously-researched sourcebook you will find a comprehensive portrayal of the culture, history, and people of Japan presented in a Lovecraftian setting. Secrets of Japan presents a new world of possibilities for keepers and investigators wishing to take their adventures East.
Publisher: Chaosium
ISBN: 9781568821566
Category : Call of Cthulhu (Game)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Present-Day Exploration of The Land of The Rising Sun--As we start the twenty-first century few corners of the world remain unexplored and unilluminated by the lamp of reason in this scientific age. The fewer places there are to hide, the more bewildering and shocking the experience when we suddenly face cosmic terror. In this meticulously-researched sourcebook you will find a comprehensive portrayal of the culture, history, and people of Japan presented in a Lovecraftian setting. Secrets of Japan presents a new world of possibilities for keepers and investigators wishing to take their adventures East.
Kitchen Princess Omnibus
Author: Miyuki Kobayashi
Publisher: Kodansha Comics
ISBN: 1612626432
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
"Najika is a great cook and likes to make meals for the people she loves. But something is missing from her life. When she was a child, she met a boy who touched her heart-- and now she's determined to find him. The only clue Najika has is a silver spoon that leads her to the prestigious Seika Academy. Attending Seika will be a challenge. Every kid at the school has a special talent, and the girls in Najika's class think she doesn't deserve to be there. But Sora and Daichi, two popular brothers who barely speak to each other, recognize Najika's cooking for what it is-- magical. Is either boy Najika's mysterious prince? -- p. [4] of cover.
Publisher: Kodansha Comics
ISBN: 1612626432
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
"Najika is a great cook and likes to make meals for the people she loves. But something is missing from her life. When she was a child, she met a boy who touched her heart-- and now she's determined to find him. The only clue Najika has is a silver spoon that leads her to the prestigious Seika Academy. Attending Seika will be a challenge. Every kid at the school has a special talent, and the girls in Najika's class think she doesn't deserve to be there. But Sora and Daichi, two popular brothers who barely speak to each other, recognize Najika's cooking for what it is-- magical. Is either boy Najika's mysterious prince? -- p. [4] of cover.
The Christian Union
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Outlook
Author: Alfred Emanuel Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Pandemonium and Parade
Author: Michael Dylan Foster
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520253620
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Monsters known as yōkai have long haunted the Japanese cultural landscape. This history of the strange and mysterious in Japan seeks out these creatures in folklore, encyclopedias, literature, art, science, games, manga, magazines and movies, exploring their meanings in the Japanese imagination over three centuries.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520253620
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Monsters known as yōkai have long haunted the Japanese cultural landscape. This history of the strange and mysterious in Japan seeks out these creatures in folklore, encyclopedias, literature, art, science, games, manga, magazines and movies, exploring their meanings in the Japanese imagination over three centuries.
Kare Kano
Author: Masami Tsuda
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Graphic novels
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
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Category : Graphic novels
Languages : en
Pages :
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Learning Resource Guide
Author: University of Texas at Austin. Film Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description