Spirit possession and cultural innovation: the case of two Japanese femane religious leaders

Authors

  • Ronan Alves Pereira

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/1678-9857.ra.1995.111442

Keywords:

religion, Japan, possession

Abstract

lt's usual to consider religion as a conservative institution. Nonetheless , this article shows that it may also have a great transfoming potential. The history of two Japanese religious founders, Miki Nakayama (1789-1887) and Nao Deguchi (1836-1918) is taken to discuss three leve is of religious experience: (I) the person' s personality reintegration level, (II) the person's social status change, and (III) this "transformed" person's chance of interfering or changing lhe sociocultural system. More than the change itself what really matters here is the possibility of change created by special states of consciousness (possession, oneiric visions, hallucinations, etc.)

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Published

1995-06-18

Issue

Vol. 38 No. 1 (1995)

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Articles

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How to Cite

Pereira, R. A. (1995). Spirit possession and cultural innovation: the case of two Japanese femane religious leaders. Revista De Antropologia, 38(1), 169-189. https://doi.org/10.11606/1678-9857.ra.1995.111442