Arakabu and the Arakawa Mountain Kami

Under the assumption that religious concepts are like any other concepts, ethnographic studies have been able to provide plausible explanations for a wide range of religious beliefs and behaviour. One under-studied question asks how such concepts help form specific expectations about social life in...

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Tác giả chính: Foster, JC
Định dạng: Journal article
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: Anthropological Society of Oxford 2014
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Tóm tắt:Under the assumption that religious concepts are like any other concepts, ethnographic studies have been able to provide plausible explanations for a wide range of religious beliefs and behaviour. One under-studied question asks how such concepts help form specific expectations about social life in modern communities. Here, we focus on how a micro-community in a southern Japanese village edits inherited religious concepts to help make solutions to a social problem intelligible. In section one, we study the variables: the religious concept, the problem, and the micro-community. In section two we turn to the details of the editing of the concept.