Folk Beliefs in Modern Japan

Contemporary Papers on Japanese Religion 3

INOUE Nobutaka, General Editor

ASHIDA Tetsurô
Norman HAVENS
IKEGAMI Yoshimasa
INOUE Nobutaka
ISHII Kenji
KAWAMURA Kunimitsu
MURAKAMI Kôkyô

Translated by Norman Havens

Originally published in 1994 by the Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University. (ISBN4-905853-02-8)

Table of Contents

Preface

by INOUE Nobutaka

Introduction

by INOUE Nobutaka

Local Newspaper Coverage of Folk Shamans in Aomori Prefecture

by IKEGAMI Yoshimasa

The Life of a Shamanness: Scenes from the Shamanism of Northeastern Japan

by KAWAMURA Kunimitsu

Annual Events and the Transformation of Japanese Religious Life

by ISHII Kenji

Wayside Shrines at Urban Train Stations: Religion at the Crossroads

by MURAKAMI Kôkyô

The Festival and Religion Boom: Irony of the "Age of the Heart"

by ASHIDA Tetsurô

The Changing Face of Japanese Folk Beliefs

by Norman HAVENS