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Routledge The Fox's Craft in Japanese Religion and Culture: Shapeshifters, Transformations, and Duplicities: 7 (Religion in History, Society and Culture)

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For more than a millennium, the fox has been a ubiquitous figure at the margins of the Japanese collective imagination. In the writings of the nobility and the motifs of popular literature, the fox is known as a shapeshifter, able to assume various forms in order to deceive others. Focusing on recurring themes of transformation and duplicity in folklore, theology, and court and village practice, The Fox's Craft explores the meanings and uses of shapeshifter fox imagery in Japanese history. Michael Bathgate finds that the shapeshifting powers of the fox make it a surprisingly fundamental symbol in the discourse of elite and folk alike, and a key component in formulations of marriage and human identity, religious knowledge, and the power of money. The symbol of the shapeshifter fox thus provides a vantage point from which to understand the social practice of signification. About the Author Michael Bathgate i s Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Saint Xavier University in Chicago, where he teaches courses on the comparative study of religions.

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Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0415968216
Category: Books > Subjects > Religion & Spirituality > Other Religions
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 February 2004
Listed Since: 04 January 2007

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