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"Keeping pace with contemporary Western culture's fascination with monsters, monster theory has attempted to explore the significance of monsters in different genre, media, and cultural contexts; complicating this project however has been the absence of a single volume collecting in one place central approaches and significant works. Monster Theory: A Reader will address this gap and bring together many of the scattered articles, essays, and book chapters theorizing monsters and monstrosity, thereby making the volume extremely useful for researchers and ideal for course adoption for classes involving a focus on monsters"--

Monsters in popular culture --- Popular culture --- J1723.80 --- J4143 --- Japan: Religion in general -- demonology --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural trends and movements -- popular culture

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Many Japanese once revered the wolf as Oguchi no Magami, or Large-Mouthed Pure God, but as Japan began its modern transformation wolves lost their otherworldly status and became noxious animals that needed to be killed. By 1905 they had disappeared from the country. In this spirited and absorbing narrative, Brett Walker takes a deep look at the scientific, cultural, and environmental dimensions of wolf extinction in Japan and tracks changing attitudes toward nature through Japan's long history. Grain farmers once worshiped wolves at shrines and left food offerings near their dens, beseeching the elusive canine to protect their crops from the sharp hooves and voracious appetites of wild boars and deer. Talismans and charms adorned with images of wolves protected against fire, disease, and other calamities and brought fertility to agrarian communities and to couples hoping to have children. The Ainu people believed that they were born from the union of a wolflike creature and a goddess. In the eighteenth century, wolves were seen as rabid man-killers in many parts of Japan. Highly ritualized wolf hunts were instigated to cleanse the landscape of what many considered as demons. By the nineteenth century, however, the destruction of wolves had become decidedly unceremonious, as seen on the island of Hokkaido. Through poisoning, hired hunters, and a bounty system, one of the archipelago's largest carnivores was systematically erased. The story of wolf extinction exposes the underside of Japan's modernization. Certain wolf scientists still camp out in Japan to listen for any trace of the elusive canines. The quiet they experience reminds us of the profound silence that awaits all humanity when, as the Japanese priest Kenko taught almost seven centuries ago, we "look on fellow sentient creatures without feeling compassion."

Extinct mammals --- Gray wolf --- Canis lupus --- Timber wolf --- Wolf --- Canis --- Wolves --- Extinct vertebrates --- Mammals --- J7550 --- J7510 --- J1723.30 --- Japan: Science and technology -- biology -- zoology, fauna --- Japan: Science and technology -- biology -- ecology (general) --- Japan: Religion in general -- nature worship

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J1741.60 --- J1723.80 --- J1740 --- S35/1000 --- Exorcism --- #SML: Joseph Spae --- Evil spirits, Expulsion of --- Expulsion of evil spirits --- Demonology --- Rites and ceremonies --- Japan: Religion in general -- occultism -- witchcraft and magic --- Japan: Religion in general -- demonology --- Japan: Religion in general -- occultism --- Japan--Religion --- Sukyo Mahikari (Religious organization) --- 崇敎真光 (Religious organization) --- 崇教真光 (Religious organization) --- Sekai Mahikari Bunmei Kyōdan --- Exorcism. --- Sūkyō Mahikari (Religious organization)

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Religion. --- Ōmoto (Religious organization). --- Japan --- Japan. --- J1960 --- J1723.20 --- J1915 --- J1914 --- Japan: Religion -- new religions --- Japan: Religion in general -- shamanism --- Japan: Religion -- Shintō -- rituals and practices --- Japan: Religion -- Shintō -- sects and schools -- new --- Ōmoto (Religious organization) --- Oomoto --- Ōmotokyō --- Ômoto-Bewegung --- Oomoto (Religious organization) --- Kōdō Ōmoto (Religious organization) --- 大本 (Religious organization)

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A une époque de Zen au rabais, déformé et méconnaissable, qui intéresse jusqu'à la publicité dans un monde avide de spiritualité orientale, la " religion japonaise " - shintô ? Bouddhisme ? Les deux ? - Reste encore, à plus d'un égard, un terrain à découvrir. L'ambition de cette chrestomathie est de faire connaître au lecteur les courants majeurs de l'histoire religieuse du Japon, allant de " l'âge des dieux ", où " arbres et plantes disaient des choses " [=partie A] jusqu'au seuil du Moyen Age, i.e. la fin du XIIe siècle qui vit l'éclosion du syncrétisme shintô- bouddhique dans le " pays des prodiges du Sutra du Lotus " [=partie B]. Les auteurs proposent donc - loin des synthèses expéditives ou des regards particularisants -, une initiation concrète et immédiate à la mentalité religieuse japonaise, en s'appuyant sur un choix de textes littéraires, historiques, liturgiques et doctrinaux, presque tous traduits pour la première fois en langue française. Narration mythologique, prières et chants rituels, histoires morales et miraculeuses aux personnages fort attachants [notables, clergé et petit peuple], hymnes en éloge aux bouddhas et bodhisattvas : tout concourt à familiariser le lecteur avec une pensée parfois lointaine, parfois étrangement proche, voire universelle ; pensée propre à l'homme dans sa nature, ses faiblesses et ses aspirations religieuses de tout temps.

Japan --- Japon --- Religion --- J1700 --- J1723 --- Japan: Religion -- general and history --- Japan: Religion in general -- primitive religions -- general popular beliefs and folk religion --- culture populaire --- Folklore --- Church attendance. --- Shinto - Customs and practices. --- Buddhism - Japan - History. --- Mythology, Japanese. --- Folk religion. --- Pratique religieuse - Japon - Histoire. --- Shinto - Coutumes et pratiques - Histoire. --- Bouddhisme - Japon - Histoire. --- Mythologie japonaise - Histoire. --- Japan. --- Japan - Religion. --- Japan - Church history. --- Japon - Vie religieuse. --- Japon - Religion. --- Japon - Histoire religieuse. --- Japan: Religion in general --- Shinto --- Buddhism --- Pratique religieuse --- Bouddhisme --- Mythologie japonaise