Demonic Affliction or Contagious Disease?: Changing Perceptions of Smallpox in the Late Edo Period
This article examines the ways in which smallpox epidemics were perceived in premodern Japan. It is a study of the ways of thinking that crystallized around the struggle to eradicate smallpox, and aims to clarify the formative elements of the now extinct cult of the smallpox deity. In this struggle...
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Nanzan Institute
[2001]
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Japanese journal of religious studies
Year: 2001, Volume: 28, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 373-398 |
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Epidemics
B Smallpox B Deities B Physicians B Religious Studies B Measles B Smallpox vaccines |
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