Sacred Mountains and Women in Japan: Fighting a Romanticized Image of Female Ascetic Practitioners
Previous scholarship on sacred mountains and women discussed restrictions on women’s access to sacred places primarily in terms of the impurity of blood (chi no kegare) from menstruation and childbirth, as well as Buddhist precepts. Historians took the initiative in examining these restrictions, and...
| Published in: | Japanese journal of religious studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Nanzan Institute
2017
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| In: |
Japanese journal of religious studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 44, Issue: 1, Pages: 103-122 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Shugen (Sect)
/ Asceticism
/ Woman
/ Sexism
/ Exclusion
/ Gender studies
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism KBM Asia KCD Hagiography; saints NBE Anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
Women
B Buddhism B Menstruation B Religious Studies B Fraternal organizations B Men B Purification rituals B Folklore B Womens rights |
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