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Podcast: New Books in Buddhist Studies
Episode: A. Castiglioni and F. Rambelli, "Defining Shugendo: Critical Studies on Japanese Mountain Religion" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Description: Andrea Castiglioni and Fabio Rambelli's edited volume Defining Shugendo: Critical Studies on Japanese Mountain Religion (Bloomsbury, 2020) presents the newest studies on ShugendÅ-related practices and traditions from both Japanese and non-Japanese scholars. Contributors in their chapters explore how ShugendÅ constructed topologies and invented chronologies, how their practitioners were imagined and fictionalized, as well as how the tradition was reflected through materiality and visual cultures. The book also delves into the intellectual history of ShungendÅ studies in Japan, at the same time reflecting on how mountain beliefs in Japan have been studied in the West. Part One of the book...