Ian Reader is a scholar of Japanese religion, and this University of Hawai'i Press book is his ethnographic study of the meaning and practice of the eighty-eight temple Shikoku pilgrimage associated with the monk Kukai. Its strength is sustained fieldwork with actual pilgrims, giving an account of why people undertake the route and what it means to them in practice, rather than only its formal religious history. Its limit is that it is focused specifically on Shikoku, so a claim about Japanese pilgrimage traditions more broadly, such as the separate Kumano routes, needs a source addressing that different pilgrimage rather than an extension of this one.
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Published by the University of Hawai'i Press as Ian Reader's academic study of Shikoku pilgrimage practice, peer reviewed university press scholarship. NotesReader's ethnographic study of the meaning and practice of the Shikoku pilgrimage.
Citation
AuthorIan Reader
PublisherUniversity of Hawai'i Press
Publication Year2005
Source Typebook
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Kukai, Figures This source names Kukai directly: "pilgrimage associated with the monk Kukai."
Source Making Pilgrimages: Meaning and Practice in ShikokuIan Reader
Claims Backed By This Source (31 claims)
This source backs 31 claims across the atlas. As facts: 24 well-attested. As cited relationships: 4 holds. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Pilgrimage Routes, 17 claims: 13 well-attested, 2 holds, 2 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Articles, 4 claims: 4 well-attested.
- Sacred Sites, 2 claims: 1 holds, 1 general references.
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