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Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan: Beyond Religion?
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Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan: Beyond Religion? Hardcover - 2022

by Ioannis Gaitanidis; Bettina E. Schmidt (Editor); Steven Sutcliffe (Editor)


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This book critically analyses the creation and effects of spirituality as both discourse and practice in Japan. It shows how the value of spirituality has been sustained by scholars who have wished for a more civic role for religion; by the publishing industry whose exponential growth in the 1980s fashioned those who later identified as the representatives of this "new spirituality culture"; by "spiritual therapists" who have sought to eke out a livelihood in an increasingly professionalized and regulated therapeutic field; and by the cruel optimism of an increasingly precarious workforce placing its hopes in the imagined alternative that the supirichuaru represents.
Ioannis Gaitanidis offers a new transdisciplinary conceptualisation of 'alternativity' that can be applied across and beyond the disciplines of religious studies, media studies, popular culture studies and the anthropology/sociology of medicine.

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  • Title Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan: Beyond Religion?
  • Author Ioannis Gaitanidis; Bettina E. Schmidt (Editor); Steven Sutcliffe (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 264
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
  • Date 2022-11-17
  • Features Dust Cover
  • ISBN 9781350262614 / 1350262617
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.63 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.60 cm)

About the author

Ioannis Gaitanidis is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Global and Transdisciplinary Studies, Chiba University, Japan.
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