2007
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2007.00461.x
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Are mountain gods vindictive? Competing images of the Japanese alpine landscape

Abstract: This article underscores the importance of folk religious concepts in understanding the way in which people interact with the environment that envelops and sustains them. Images of rural Japan have drawn almost exclusively on the tradition of irrigated rice cultivation combined with ancestor worship. Alternative concepts have been overlooked or ignored, fostering the sense of a uniform heritage. The author highlights one such alternative, which derives from the tradition of hunting, gathering, and slash‐and‐bu… Show more

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“…It is a place with a strong connection to the spiritual world in similar veins as other mountains across the world have been ascribed a spiritual status (cf. Grapard 1982;Fisiy 1997;Schnell 2007). A sacred mountain can be seen as "an axis mundi connecting earth with heaven" (Eliade 1987: 38).…”
Section: Navigating Through a Landscape Of Powersmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…It is a place with a strong connection to the spiritual world in similar veins as other mountains across the world have been ascribed a spiritual status (cf. Grapard 1982;Fisiy 1997;Schnell 2007). A sacred mountain can be seen as "an axis mundi connecting earth with heaven" (Eliade 1987: 38).…”
Section: Navigating Through a Landscape Of Powersmentioning
confidence: 98%