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Occult Hunting and Supernatural Play in Japan

Occult Hunting and Supernatural Play in Japan

by Laura Miller
Hardback
Publication Date: 31/08/2024

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In Japan Today, women are the primary drivers of religious re-enchantment, and they are exerting pressure on shrines, temples, and media industries to accommodate their interests and aesthetic tastes. Employing a semantically broad meaning of "occult" to include the mysterious or supernatural, Laura Miller examines how it manifests to offer avenues of self-exploration and spiritual capital that fundamentally appeal to women. Female seekers have had a major impact on the fashioning and marketing of spiritual sites, texts, and objects, often through encoding the kawaii, or cute, aesthetic. Miller makes the case that the gendered nature of occult hunting has been neglected in research and that greater attention to gendered perspectives reveals significant facets of sociality and recreation. Written from an interdisciplinary cultural studies perspective, Occult Hunting and Supernatural Play in Japan interlaces history, art, literature, religion, media studies, and anthropology to explore ubiquitous yet understudied activities such as having one's fortune told; visiting "powerspots," locations thought to hold exceptional supernatural energy; and playing with new types of tarot decks. Book chapters also focus on material religion, including objects like good luck amulets and votive plaques, Taoist paper talismans, pilgrim stamps, and ancient curved beads called magatama. Tracing their histories and transformations, Miller insists that these forms of visual and material religion and their related activities are neither trivial nor simply commercial gambits. Rather^ they provide insights into the realms of creative exploration, pleasure, and spiritual development in the lives of girls and young women.
ISBN:
9780824896164
9780824896164
Category:
Oriental religions
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
31-08-2024
Language:
English
Publisher:
University of Hawai'i Press
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
231.14x149.86x20.32mm
Weight:
0.46kg
Laura Miller

Laura Miller is a journalist and critic living in New York. She is currently a books and culture columnist at Slate. Laura is also co-founder of Salon.com, where she worked as an editor and writer for 20 years.

Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, the Guardian and the New York Times Book Review, where she wrote the 'Last Word' column for two years.

She is the author of The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia and editor of the Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors.

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