{"product_id":"9781350262652","title":"Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan Beyond Religion?","description":"\u003ch3\u003eBloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eSpirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eBeyond Religion?\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eIoannis Gaitanidis | Amy L. Allocco | Bettina E. Schmidt | Steven J. Sutcliffe\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eReligion \/ Spirituality\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book critically analyses the creation and effects of spirituality as both discourse and practice in Japan. It shows how the value of spirituality has been sustained by scholars who have wished for a more civic role for religion; by the publishing industry whose exponential growth in the 1980s fashioned those who later identified as the representatives of this “new spirituality culture”; by “spiritual therapists” who have sought to eke out a livelihood in an increasingly professionalized and regulated therapeutic field; and by the cruel optimism of an increasingly precarious workforce placing its hopes in the imagined alternative that the \u003ci\u003esupirichuaru\u003c\/i\u003e represents.\u003cbr\u003eIoannis Gaitanidis offers a new transdisciplinary conceptualisation of 'alternativity' that can be applied across and beyond the disciplines of religious studies, media studies, popular culture studies and the anthropology\/sociology of medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eIoannis Gaitanidis\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Global and Transdisciplinary Studies, Chiba University, Japan.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e30 May 2024\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350262652\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e264\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e13.12\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51936326484108,"sku":"9781350262652","price":36.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_04138717-7eec-4df1-bcb0-3e79197b8e8f.jpg?v=1786017522","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350262652","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}