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"Since the 1990s the Japanese pet industry has grown to a trillion-yen business and estimates place the number of pets above the number of children under the age of fifteen. There are between 6,000 to 8,000 businesses in the Japanese pet funeral industry, including more than 900 pet cemeteries. Of these about 120 are operated by Buddhist temples, and Buddhist mortuary rites for pets have become an institutionalized practice. In Bones of Contention, Barbara Ambros investigates what religious and intellectual traditions constructed animals as subjects of religious rituals and how pets have been included or excluded in the necral landscapes of contemporary Japan. Pet mortuary rites are emblems of the ongoing changes in contemporary Japanese religions. The increase in single and nuclear-family households, marriage delays for both males and females, the falling birthrate and graying of society, the occult boom of the 1980s, the pet boom of the 1990s, the anti-religious backlash in the wake of the 1995 Aum Shinrikyō incident--all of these and more have contributed to Japan's contested history of pet mortuary rites. Ambros uses this history to shed light on important questions such as: Who (or what) counts as a family member? What kinds of practices should the state recognize as religious and thus protect financially and legally? Is it frivolous or selfish to keep, pamper, or love an animal? Should humans and pets be buried together? How do people reconcile the deeply personal grief that follows the loss of a pet and how do they imagine the afterlife of pets? And ultimately, what is the status of animals in Japan? Bones of Contention is a book about how Japanese people feel and think about pets and other kinds of animals and, in turn, what pets and their people have to tell us about life and death in Japan today."--Publisher's website.

Pets --- Pet funeral rites and ceremonies --- Buddhist memorial rites and ceremonies --- Human-animal relationships --- Death --- Religious aspects --- Buddhism. --- Animal-human relationships --- Animal-man relationships --- Animals and humans --- Human beings and animals --- Man-animal relationships --- Relationships, Human-animal --- Animals --- Memorial rites and ceremonies, Buddhist --- Buddhism --- Memorial rites and ceremonies --- Companion animals --- House pets --- Domestic animals --- Household animals --- Rituals --- J4157 --- J1714 --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- customs, folklore and culture -- treatment of the dead and funerals --- Japan: Religion in general -- sociology of religion --- Death&delete& --- Religious aspects&delete&

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Towering over the Kanto Plain, the sacred mountain Oyama (literally, "Big Mountain") has loomed large over the religious landscape of early modern Japan." "By the Edo period (1600-1868), the revered peak had undergone a transformation from secluded spiritual retreat to popular pilgrimage destination. Its status as a regional landmark among its devotees was boosted by its proximity to the shogunal capital and the wide appeal of its amalgamation of Buddhism, Shinto, mountain asceticism, and folk beliefs. The influence of the Oyama cult - the intersecting beliefs, practices, and infrastructure associated with the sacred site - was not lost on the ruling Tokugawa shogunate, which saw in the pilgrimage an opportunity to reinforce the communal ideals and social structures that the authorities espoused. Barbara Ambros provides a detailed narrative history of the mountain and its place in contemporary society and popular religion by focusing on the development of the Oyama cult and its religious, political, and socioeconomic contexts. Richly illustrated and carefully researched, this study emphasizes the importance of "site" or "region" in considering the multifaceted nature and complex history of religious practice in Tokugawa Japan.

Mountain worship --- J1917.80 --- J1918.13 --- J1940 --- Mountains --- Nature worship --- Japan: Religion -- Shintō -- relations -- society, sociology --- Japan: Religion -- Shintō -- shrines and pilgrimage -- Kantō region -- Kanagawa prefecture (Sagami) --- Japan: Religion -- Shugendō --- Religious aspects --- Ōyama (Kanagawa-ken, Japan) --- Ō Mountain (Kanagawa-ken, Japan) --- Ō-yama (Kanagawa-ken, Japan) --- Religious life and customs. --- 11.87 religions of Japan. --- Mountain worship. --- Wallfahrt. --- Kult. --- Bedevaartplaatsen. --- Cultus. --- Japansk religion --- Geschichte 1500-1900. --- Ōyama (Kanagawa-ken, Japan) --- Japan --- Ōyama

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Art, Japanese --- Animals in art --- Animals --- Themes, motives --- Exhibitions --- Symbolic aspects