Spirit possession and cultural innovation: the case of two Japanese femane religious leaders
lt's usual to consider religion as a conservative institution. Nonetheless , this article shows that it may also have a great transfoming potential. The history of two Japanese religious founders, Miki Nakayama (1789-1887) and Nao Deguchi (1836-1918) is taken to discuss three leve is of religio...
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| description | lt's usual to consider religion as a conservative institution. Nonetheless , this article shows that it may also have a great transfoming potential. The history of two Japanese religious founders, Miki Nakayama (1789-1887) and Nao Deguchi (1836-1918) is taken to discuss three leve is of religious experience: (I) the person' s personality reintegration level, (II) the person's social status change, and (III) this "transformed" person's chance of interfering or changing lhe sociocultural system. More than the change itself what really matters here is the possibility of change created by special states of consciousness (possession, oneiric visions, hallucinations, etc.) |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4d523e3ea6984cb99a4b3c1c233ea87f2022-12-22T00:28:44ZengUniversidade de São Paulo (USP)Revista de Antropologia0034-77011678-98571995-06-0138110.11606/2179-0892.ra.1995.111442Spirit possession and cultural innovation: the case of two Japanese femane religious leadersRonan Alves Pereiralt's usual to consider religion as a conservative institution. Nonetheless , this article shows that it may also have a great transfoming potential. The history of two Japanese religious founders, Miki Nakayama (1789-1887) and Nao Deguchi (1836-1918) is taken to discuss three leve is of religious experience: (I) the person' s personality reintegration level, (II) the person's social status change, and (III) this "transformed" person's chance of interfering or changing lhe sociocultural system. More than the change itself what really matters here is the possibility of change created by special states of consciousness (possession, oneiric visions, hallucinations, etc.)http://www.revistas.usp.br/ra/article/view/111442religionJapanpossession |
| spellingShingle | Ronan Alves Pereira Spirit possession and cultural innovation: the case of two Japanese femane religious leaders Revista de Antropologia religion Japan possession |
| title | Spirit possession and cultural innovation: the case of two Japanese femane religious leaders |
| title_full | Spirit possession and cultural innovation: the case of two Japanese femane religious leaders |
| title_fullStr | Spirit possession and cultural innovation: the case of two Japanese femane religious leaders |
| title_full_unstemmed | Spirit possession and cultural innovation: the case of two Japanese femane religious leaders |
| title_short | Spirit possession and cultural innovation: the case of two Japanese femane religious leaders |
| title_sort | spirit possession and cultural innovation the case of two japanese femane religious leaders |
| topic | religion Japan possession |
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