Spirituality and Women in Japan
This article examines the issue of spirituality for women in today’s world based on interviews with twenty-two women who are involved with spirituality or healing in Japan. I show that from these interviews, they make the effort to navigate their encounters with spirituality and healing productively...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Nanzan Institute
2017
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Japanese journal of religious studies
Année: 2017, Volume: 44, Numéro: 1, Pages: 123-138 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Japan
/ Femme
/ Rôle de genre
/ Spiritualité
/ Guérison spirituelle
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| RelBib Classification: | AE Psychologie de la religion AG Vie religieuse AZ Nouveau mouvement religieux FD Théologie contextuelle KBM Asie ZB Sociologie |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Gender Equality
B Feminism B Religious Studies B Past life regression B Working women B Children B Spiritual belief systems B Child Care |
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| Résumé: | This article examines the issue of spirituality for women in today’s world based on interviews with twenty-two women who are involved with spirituality or healing in Japan. I show that from these interviews, they make the effort to navigate their encounters with spirituality and healing productively and to positively attribute significance to their lives. They sense in spiritual ways of life a power with the ability to activate collective energies capable of achieving global social change that is motivated not by anger but by joy, and that is capable of envisioning a better world. These women have found ways to live outside established, organized religions. They can have human relationships that are not limited by the norms of their families, and where they live by connecting online with like-minded people and sharing ideas with them. They are profoundly involved in living their own lives. The actions of women such as these are bringing about a transformation in views of gender in Japan. |
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| Contient: | Enthalten in: Japanese journal of religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.18874/jjrs.44.1.2017.123-138 |