Revival of Local Festivals and Religion after the Great East Japan Earthquake

Since the Great East Japan Earthquake on 11 March 2011, local festivals in the affected area have attracted wide attention as an indication of the population’s recovery. Many nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and other groups have provided financial or human support to revive these local festival...

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Publié dans:Journal of Religion in Japan
Auteur principal: Kimura, Toshiaki 1965- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Brill 2016
Dans: Journal of Religion in Japan
Année: 2016, Volume: 5, Numéro: 2/3, Pages: 227-245
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Tohoku (Région) / Catastrophe / Hamaichi / Kami / Matsuri / Revival / Histoire 2011-2013
RelBib Classification:AD Sociologie des religions
AF Géographie religieuse
AG Vie religieuse
BN Shintoïsme
KBM Asie
RB Ministère ecclésiastique
RC Liturgie
TK Époque contemporaine
Sujets non-standardisés:B revival of festivals Shintō Great East Japan Earthquake disasters Miyagi Oshiogori
Accès en ligne: Volltext (Verlag)
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Résumé:Since the Great East Japan Earthquake on 11 March 2011, local festivals in the affected area have attracted wide attention as an indication of the population’s recovery. Many nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and other groups have provided financial or human support to revive these local festivals. In the mass media, reports of these activities are frequently edited to depict heartwarming stories. Why was the festival revived? Does it have any meaning for the affected people? Could this trend be interpreted as a revival of religion in Japan after the disaster? In this paper, I examine the process of reviving a large-scale festival held once every twenty years in a coastal village that was seriously affected by the tsunami. My examination uses two sets of concepts: “deductive” and “inductive” rituals, and “monophonic” and “polyphonic” rituals.
ISSN:2211-8349
Contient:In: Journal of Religion in Japan
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/22118349-00502001