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Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan: Beyond Religion? (Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies) by Ioannis Gaitanidis, Bettina E. Schmidt, Steven Sutcliffe, William Sweetman is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan: Beyond Religion? (Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies) about?
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
Who reads Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan: Beyond Religion? (Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies)?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Ioannis Gaitanidis, Bettina E. Schmidt, Steven Sutcliffe, William Sweetman
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Bloomsbury Academic
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781350262645
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Religion, Christian, Spirituality
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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