This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the combinatory tradition that dominated premodern and early modern Japanese religion, known as honji suijaku (originals and their traces). It questions received, simplified accounts of the interactions between Shinto and Japanese Buddhism, and presents a more dynamic and variegated religious world, one in which the deities' Buddhist originals and local traces did not constitute one-to-one associations, but complex combinations of multiple deities based on semiotic operations, doctrines, myths, and legends. The book's essays, all based on specific case studies, discuss the honji suijaku paradigm from a number of different perspectives, always integrating historical and doctrinal analysis with interpretive insights.
Edited by:
Fabio Rambelli,
Mark Teeuwen
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138965164
ISBN 10: 1138965162
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 09 December 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
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A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Contributors Preface 1. Introduction: Combinatory religion and the honji suijaku paradigm in pre-modern Japan Mark Teeuwen and Fabio Rambelli 2. From thunder child to Dharma protector: Dojo hoshi and the Buddhist appropriation of Japanese local deities Irene Lin 3. The source of oracular speech: absense? presence? or plain treachery? The case of Hachiman Usa-gú gotakusenshú Allan Grapard 4. Wrathful Deities and saving deities Sato Hiroo 5. The creation of a honji suijaku deity: Amaterasu as the Judge of the Dead Mark Teeuwen 6. Honji suijaku and the logic of combinatory images: Two case studies Iyanaga Nobumi 7. Honji suijaku and the development of etymological allegoresis as an interpretive method in medieval commentaries Susan Blakeley/Klein 8. 'Both parts' or 'only one'? Challenges to the honji suijaku paradigm in the Edo period Bernhard Scheid 9. Hokke Shinto: Kami in the Nichiren tradition Lucia Dolce 10. Honji suijaku at work: Religion, economics, and ideology in pre-modern Japan Fabio Rambelli 11. The interaction between Buddhist and Shinto traditions at Suwa Shrine Inoue Takami 12. Dancing the doctrine: Honji suijaku thought in kagura performances Irit Averbuch Notes Bibliography Index
Mark Teeuwen teaches at the University of Oslo, Norway. He specialises in the history of Shinto. Fabio Ramballi teaches at Sapporo University, Japan. He specialises in the history of Buddhism, particularly Esoteric Buddhism in Japan.
