IMAP Department of Philosophy (Credit 2) 選択科目 Intended Year: 大学院 Intended School: 専修学生 |
Topics in Religious Practices and Beliefs I
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Numbering Code: Course Code: 2024 SpringTerm weekly Mon4 Ito E102 Classroom E科目 (English, English) |
Course Overview |
This graduate seminar examines popular narratives from historical through contemporary Japan and modern methodologies in studying them. Relevant primary sources revolve around non-elite modes of expression: oral histories, epic tales, local legends, stories of the supernatural, music, religious festivals, manga, anime, and film. Through analyses of these mediums, we will explore the underlying belief structures that have shaped ideas concerning death and the afterlife, ethics, otherness, and the spiritual realm in Japan. The course also interrogates the intellectual construct of the ‘folk’ and folk religion. To quote the American folklorist Alan Dundes, “Who are the folk?” How does this concept relate to regional versus national identity, civilized versus so-called primitive populations, premodern versus modern categories? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Keywords : folklore, minzokugaku, yokai, Yanagita Kunio | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course Objectives |
九州大学人文科学府歴史空間論専攻ディプロマ・ポリシー 九州大学人文科学府言語・文学専攻ディプロマ・ポリシー 九州大学文学部哲学コース・カリキュラムマップ 九州大学文学部歴史学コース・カリキュラムマップ 九州大学文学部文学コース・カリキュラムマップ 九州大学文学部人間科学コース・カリキュラムマップ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Course Plan |
Textbooks : Foster, Michael Dylan. The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore. UC Press, 2015. Reference Books : Christy, Alan S. A Discipline on Foot: Inventing Japanese Native Ethnography, 1910–1945. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2012. Figal, Gerald. Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan. Duke University Press, 2000. (Ordered for the KKS, 9/10/19) Foster, Michael Dylan. Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yōkai. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009. Ortabasi, Melek. The Undiscovered Country. Harvard University Asia Center, 2014. Tyler, Royall. Japanese Tales. New York: Pantheon Books, 1987. (PDF) Yanagita Kunio and Ronald A. Morse. The Legends of Tono. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2008. Course Handouts : N/A Course Plan ()
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Evaluation |
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Study Consultation (Office Hours) |
Study Consultation (Office Hours) : E-B-507 Office hours by appointment Suggestion for success (Specific) : Participation in discussion and careful reading of assignments is important : |