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"Although located far from the populated centers of traditional Japan, the three Kumano shrines occupied a central position in the Japanese religious landscape. For centuries Kumano was the most visited pilgrimage site in Japan and attracted devotees from across the boundaries of sect (Buddhist, Daoist, Shinto), class, and gender. It was also a major institutional center, commanding networks of affiliated shrines, extensive landholdings, and its own army, and a site of production, generating agricultural products and symbolic capital in the form of spiritual values. Kumano was thus both a real place and a utopia: a non-place of paradise or enlightenment. It was a location in which cultural ideals--about death, salvation, gender, and authority--were represented, contested, and even at times inverted. This book encompasses both the real and the ideal, both the historical and the ideological, Kumano. It studies Kumano not only as a site of practice, a stage for the performance of asceticism and pilgrimage, but also as a place of the imagination, a topic of literary and artistic representation. Kumano was not unique in combining Buddhism with native traditions, for redefining death and its conquest, for expressing the relationship between religious and political authority, and for articulating the religious position of women. By studying Kumano's particular religious landscape, we can better understand the larger, common religious landscape of premodern Japan."--Publisher's website.

J1918.45 --- J1910.10 --- Japan: Religion -- Shintō -- shrines and pilgrimage -- Kansai and Kinki region -- Wakayama prefecture (Kii) --- Japan: Religion -- Shintō -- history -- Kodai, earliest, premodern --- Kumano Hayatama Jinja (Shingū-shi, Japan) --- Kumano Hongūsha (Natori-shi, Japan) --- Kumano Nachi Jinja (Nachikatsuura-chō, Japan) --- Kumano Pusumi Jinja (Nachikatsuura-chō, Japan) --- 熊野那智神社 (Nachikatsuura-chō, Japan) --- Kumano Nachi Taisha (Nachikatsuura-chō, Japan) --- Natori-shi (Japan). --- 熊野本宮社 (Natori-shi, Japan) --- Shingū, Japan. --- Shingū Hayatama Taisha --- Kumano Hayatama Taisha (Shingū-shi, Japan) --- Hayatama Jinja (Shingū-shi, Japan) --- Kumano Shingū (Shingū-shi, Japan) --- Shingū-shi (Japan). --- 熊野速玉神社 (Shingū-shi, Japan) --- Kumano Region (Japan) --- Religion. --- Wallfahrt. --- Kumano Hayatama Jinja (Shingū-shi, Japan). --- Kumano Hongūsha (Natori-shi, Japan). --- Kumano Nachi Jinja (Nachikatsuura-chō, Japan). --- Geschichte 710-1868. --- Japan --- Kumano --- Kumano Hongusha (Natori-shi, Japón) --- Kumano Nachi Jinja (Nachikatsuura-cho, Japón) --- Kumano Hayatama Jinja (Shingu-shi, Japón) --- Religion --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology