Religion and Psychotherapy in Modern Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and Psychotherapy in Modern Japan write by Christopher Harding. This book was released on 2014-09-15. Religion and Psychotherapy in Modern Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the late nineteenth century, religious ideas and practices in Japan have become increasingly intertwined with those associated with mental health and healing. This relationship developed against the backdrop of a far broader, and deeply consequential meeting: between Japan’s long-standing, Chinese-influenced intellectual and institutional forms, and the politics, science, philosophy, and religion of the post-Enlightenment West. In striving to craft a modern society and culture that could exist on terms with – rather than be subsumed by – western power and influence, Japan became home to a religion--psy dialogue informed by pressing political priorities and rapidly shifting cultural concerns. This book provides a historically contextualized introduction to the dialogue between religion and psychotherapy in modern Japan. In doing so, it draws out connections between developments in medicine, government policy, Japanese religion and spirituality, social and cultural criticism, regional dynamics, and gender relations. The chapters all focus on the meeting and intermingling of religious with psychotherapeutic ideas and draw on a wide range of case studies including: how temple and shrine ‘cures’ of early modern Japan fared in the light of German neuropsychiatry; how Japanese Buddhist theories of mind, body, and self-cultivation negotiated with the findings of western medicine; how Buddhists, Christians, and other organizations and groups drew and redrew the lines between religious praxis and psychological healing; how major European therapies such as Freud’s fed into self-consciously Japanese analyses of and treatments for the ills of the age; and how distress, suffering, and individuality came to be reinterpreted across the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, from the southern islands of Okinawa to the devastated northern neighbourhoods of the Tohoku region after the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disasters of March 2011. Religion and Psychotherapy in Modern Japan will be welcomed by students and scholars working across a broad range of subjects, including Japanese culture and society, religious studies, psychology and psychotherapy, mental health, and international history.
Psychotherapy and Religion in Japan
Psychotherapy and Religion in Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Psychotherapy and Religion in Japan write by Chikako Ozawa-de Silva. This book was released on 2006-09-27. Psychotherapy and Religion in Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book, based on original anthropological fieldwork, provides a detailed ethnography of Naikan in practice.
A History of Modern Japan
A History of Modern Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Modern Japan write by Christopher Harding. This book was released on 2020-06-30. A History of Modern Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Lucid and lyrical…a vivid history of Japan's turbocharged (and painful) modernization." --The Daily Telegraph In A History of Modern Japan, cultural historian Christopher Harding delves into the untold stories of Japan's recent history--from a pop star's nuclear power protest song in 2011, to Japanese feminists who fought for an equal political voice in the 1890s. Though highly successful, and typically portrayed as a unified effort, Japan's rebuilding throughout the 20th century faced a lot of domestic criticism. This story-led account gives a voice to those who felt they didn't fit in with what Japan was becoming. It's that push and pull that made the country what it is today. This book will be a fascinating read for anyone interested in Japanese culture--whether film and literature, or pop culture and manga--as big shifts in Japanese ideology and society tend to come from culture and the arts, rather than being politically-driven. It will also be of interest to those traveling to Japan who want a better sense of the place, or anyone seeking to better understand Japan's role on the global stage. With over 100 photographs, maps and prints, A History of Modern Japan showcases the compelling story of Japan's amazing growth and its resulting struggles. For all the country's advancement, the Japanese people continue to wrestle with the notion of what it means to be Japanese in a changing world.
The geography of tourism and recreation
The geography of tourism and recreation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The geography of tourism and recreation write by C.M. Hall. This book was released on 2006. The geography of tourism and recreation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan
Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan write by Ioannis Gaitanidis. This book was released on 2022-10-20. Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
