World Heritage, Secularisation, and the New “Public Sacred” in East Asia

The category “heritage” is quickly gaining importance for the study of religion, not least in East Asia. Since the 1990s, Japanese governments, entrepreneurs, and NGO s have invested heavily in heritage preservation, production, and promotion, and other East Asian countries have followed suit. UNESC...

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Main Author: Rots, Aike P. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2019]
In: Journal of Religion in Japan
Year: 2019, Volume: 8, Issue: 1/3, Pages: 151-178
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Asia / Secularism / World heritage / Cultural heritage / Sacralization
RelBib Classification:AA Study of religion
AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
KBM Asia
Further subjects:B intangible cultural heritage
B Vietnam
B deprivatisation
B Japan
B Shintoism
B Unesco
Online Access: Presumably Free Access
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