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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Anthropological Society of Oxford
2014
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:df4dd9e4-cbd5-42f4-884e-3de256e7fa342024-08-24T11:46:06ZArakabu and the Arakawa Mountain KamiJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:df4dd9e4-cbd5-42f4-884e-3de256e7fa34EnglishJASO_articles_31BulkUploadAnthropological Society of Oxford2014Foster, JCUnder 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. |
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