現代日本におけるスピリチュアリティと代替性 Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan : Beyond Religion? (Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies)

Gaitanidis, Ioannis

Bloomsbury Academic（2024/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 264 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781350262652
• DDC分類 204.0952

Full Description

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.

Contents

List of Figures
List of Graphs
Acknowledgments
Note on Naming Conventions
Introduction
1. Spiritual Therapists
2. Spiritual Academia
3. Print Spirituality
4. Alternative Therapies in the Age of Attention
5. Precarities in the Spiritual Business
6. Spirituality on Trial
Conclusion: Spirituality and the 'Alternative'
List of Japanese Terms and Names
Notes
References
Index