From Miko to Spiritual Therapist

Studies of Japanese shamanism are on the decline while neo-shamanistic practitioners thrive in Japan’s large cities. Based on this observation, the authors of this paper put forward two arguments. First, we claim that a rhetorical approach to the development of scholarly interest in Japanese shamani...

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Authors: Gaitanidis, Ioannis (Author) ; Murakami, Aki (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2014
In: Journal of Religion in Japan
Year: 2014, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-35
Further subjects:B Shamanism spiritual therapy New Age miko initiation
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)