عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
شماره کتابشناسی ملی
کد کشور
IR
شماره
22T
زبان اثر
زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن
انگلیسی
کشور محل نشر یا تولید
کشور محل نشر
IR
عنوان و نام پديدآور
عنوان اصلي
Religious responses to globalization in Japan: The case of the God Light Association
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام ساير پديدآوران
;supervisor Lindholm, Charles
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Boston University: United States -- Massachusetts
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
: 2007
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
558 pages
یادداشتهای مربوط به پایان نامه ها
جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
Ph.D.
کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده
, Boston University: United States -- Massachusetts
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
This ethnography examines the impacts of globalization on the emergence, orientation, and transformation of a Japanese New Religion - the God Light Association (GLA) - over the thirty-seven years of its existence. From a popular shamanistic and neo-Buddhist religion where "speaking in tongues" was a central practice, GLA became an increasingly 'rational' and psychologically oriented religion. This shift marked the change in leadership from GLA's founder, Takahashi Shinji, to his daughter, Takahashi Keiko, who sought to attract a growing middle class. These changes reflect a whole generation of "New New Religions" that arose or reached their peak of growth in an era of unprecedented religious pluralism since the mid-1970s.Data for the study include participant observation at GLA's seminars and lectures, weekly attendance at the GLA Kyoto branch study group, archival research, and twenty-four in-depth interviews with members in the elicitation of conversion narratives. The author supplements the case study with comparative field data, based on eighteen months of fieldwork in Japan from 2003-2005, from five additional contemporaneous Japanese New Religions.Japanese new religious movements have arisen in the past 200 years during Japan's transformation from a feudal to a modern society and reflect its encounter with modernity and the West. They function as laboratories for the sampling of new identities, the domestication of alien cultural forms, and the preservation of Japaneseness. They are prime sites for the construction of an alternate modernity---the aspiration to combine the material benefits of modernity with indigenous cultural and religious traditions.This thesis argues that the Japanese New Religions are partially a response to globalization but also to pressures from within Japanese society. The Takahashi's marginalization as members of a socially disadvantaged group of burakumin or "outcastes" increasingly mirrored the anomie of mainstream Japanese. While the existence of New Religions represents a critique of established Buddhism and Shintoism, they are still expected to conform to Japan's broader aesthetic mode of organizing the world. The study demonstrates how this "aesthetic of darkness" was replicated throughout history in various media, and how GLA constructed a counter-aesthetic of light that reflects its modernizing content.
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Religion
موضوع مستند نشده
Cultural anthropology
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religious
اصطلاح موضوعی
Globalization
اصطلاح موضوعی
Japan
اصطلاح موضوعی
God Light Association
نام شخص به منزله سر شناسه - (مسئولیت معنوی درجه اول )
مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده
Whelan, Christal
مبدا اصلی
کشور
ایران
سازمان
National Center for Globalization Studies
وضعیت فهرست نویسی
وضعیت فهرست نویسی
old catalog
اطلاعات رکورد کتابشناسی
نوع ماده
TL
پیشوند ISBD اعمال شده است
1
اطلاعات دسترسی رکورد
سطح دسترسي
a
تكميل شده
Y
