Immortal Wishes – Labor and Transcendence on a Japanese Sacred Mountain

Immortal Wishes\nby Ellen Schattschneider\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Ellen Schattschneider\nTitle: Immortal Wishes\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Shintoism\nPublisher: MD - Duke University Press\nPublication year: 2003\nISBN-13: 9780822330622\nISBN-10: 0822330628\nRRP: \u00A327.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nProvides an ethnographic rendering of religious rituals and ascetic practices at the Akakura Mountain Shrine in northern Japan. This book explains that spiritual practice at the Akakura shrine is motivated by the efforts of women and men to comprehend and manage contradictory obligations and desires related to personal health, family, and work.\n\nProvides an ethnographic rendering of religious rituals and ascetic practices at the Akakura Mountain Shrine in .