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Richey, Jeffrey L. "“Honor The Power Within” Daoist Wizards, Popular Culture, and Contemporary Japan’s Spiritual Crisis." Comics and Sacred Texts. Reimagining Religion and Graphic Narratives. Eds. Assaf Gamzou and Ken Koltun-Fromm. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2018. 172–92. Added by: Okwuchi Mba (6/8/22, 4:38 PM) Last edited by: joachim (6/9/22, 10:57 AM) |
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| Resource type: Book Chapter Language: en: English DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv7vcsv2.14 BibTeX citation key: Richey2018 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Animation, Cosplay, Gender, Japan, Manga, Religion Creators: Gamzou, Koltun-Fromm, Richey Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi (Jackson) Collection: Comics and Sacred Texts. Reimagining Religion and Graphic Narratives |
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This chapter describes and analyzes the ways in which Japanese youth interest in onmyōji—particularly the disproportionate interest shown by young Japanese women—engages the social realities of contemporary Japanese life, where feelings of uncertainty and precariousness abound. By utilizing a variety of disciplinary approaches to culture—among them those of anthropology, gender theory, history, literary criticism, and religious studies—it seeks to produce a fresh look at how the onmyōji “boom,” now some thirty years in duration with apparently enduring appeal, is relevant to contemporary concerns about cultural authenticity and identity, gender and sexuality, and spirituality and religion in Japan.
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