About this title: When people create new societies, economies, and nations--both now and in the past--they create gods, rituals, and miracles to support them. Even what seem to be some of the most timeless and sacred sites in the world have been shaped, reshaped, and reinterpreted by countless people to produce oases of peace and nature today. Using miracle tales, votive plaques, diaries, and newspapers, Sarah Thal traces such changes at one of the most popular Japanese pilgrimage sites of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the shrine of Konpira on the island of Shikoku. This rich and fascinating ...
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Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780226794211ISBN:0226794210
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 409 p. Contains: Illustrations. Studies of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Audience: General/trade. Completely in tact. Highlights and notes throughout. No torn pages, one small light-colored stain on one page-does not interfere with readability. Corner curls on front cover and on a few pages. In stock. Same/next business day shipping. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780226794211ISBN:0226794210
Description: New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 409 p. Contains: Illustrations. Studies of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780226794211ISBN:0226794210
Description: When people create new societies, economies, and nations--both now and in the past--they create gods, rituals, and miracles to support them. Even what seem to be some of the most timeless and sacred sites in the world have been shaped, reshaped, and... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN-13:9780226794211ISBN:0226794210
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