A peer reviewed article in the Journal of Religion & Film (University of Nebraska Omaha), volume 8, issue 3, article 4, by James W. Boyd and Tetsuya Nishimura, arguing that Spirited Away carries more Shrine Shinto and Japanese folk religious imagery than any of Hayao Miyazaki's other translated films, centered on the bathhouse as a place where kami come to be purified. Its strength is direct scholarly authorship in a peer reviewed academic journal devoted to religion and film. Its limit is that it is a single interpretive reading rather than a comprehensive account of the film, so it is cited here for its own specific argument about Shinto purification imagery rather than as the only possible reading.
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James W. Boyd and Tetsuya Nishimura's peer reviewed article in the Journal of Religion & Film, University of Nebraska Omaha, the top tier reflecting direct scholarly authorship in a peer reviewed academic journal devoted to religion and film, arguing Spirited Away carries more Shrine Shinto and Japanese folk religious imagery than any other translated Miyazaki film. It is a single interpretive reading rather than a comprehensive account of the film, cited here for its own specific argument about Shinto purification imagery rather than as the only possible reading. NotesRead directly (DOI 10.32873/uno.dc.jrf.08.03.04). Cited for the film's Shinto purification imagery, the polluted river spirit scene, and the reading of the bathhouse as a folk-Shinto space for kami.
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AuthorJames W. Boyd and Tetsuya Nishimura
PublisherJournal of Religion & Film, University of Nebraska Omaha (volume 8, issue 3, article 4)
Publication Year2004
URLhttps://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/jrf/vol8/iss3/4/
Source Typepeer-reviewed article
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This source names Shrine Shinto directly: "Boyd and Tetsuya Nishimura, arguing that Spirited Away carries more Shrine Shinto and Japanese folk religious imagery than any of Hayao Miyazaki's other translated films, centered on the bathhouse..."
Source Boyd and Nishimura, "Shinto Perspectives in Miyazaki's Anime Film 'Spirited Away,'" Journal of Religion & Film, 2004James W. Boyd and Tetsuya Nishimura
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