Living in Pilgrimage: An Ethnographic Study of Permanent Pilgrims in Shikoku, Japan
Abstract This article aims to explore how people make pilgrimages not as a temporary journey but as a persistent way of life, using case studies I collected from fieldwork in Shikoku Island, Japan. The Shikoku pilgrimage is one of the most popular Buddhist pilgrimages, involving a 1,400-kilometre jo...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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Journal of Religion in Japan
Year: 2021, Volume: 10, Issue: 1, Pages: 64-87 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Shikoku
/ Pilgrimage
/ Alms
/ Pilgrim
/ Beggar
/ Religious identity
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism BN Shinto KBM Asia |
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Everyday Practice
B begging B Shikoku pilgrimage B the classificatory gaze B self-cultivation |
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