Spirit Tree Origins of Cosmology in ShintT

Despite what some scholarship has suggested, Shint(tm) does exhibit a unifying cognitive integrity. Employing a comparative approach, Spirit Tree blends two theoretical orientationscultural anthropology and Jungian psychologyto interpret Shint(tm) ritual at the Hakozaki Hachiman Shrine in Fukuoka, Japan and situate the cosmological organization of this practice within the larger context of ritual in East Asia.

E. Leslie Williams is associate professor of Japanese in the Department of Languages at Clemson University.

A paradigm shift : roots and shoots	p. 1
Living landscape	p. 16
Great mother as woman and topocosm	p. 32
Ommyodo cycles of time	p. 62
Spirits high and low	p. 94
Hakozaki's spirit tree	p. 111
Fruit of the spirits	p. 175
Chronology of Japanese history	p. 183
Roster of peripheral shrine spirits	p. 185
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Spirit Tree Origins of Cosmology in ShintT Ritual at Hakozaki

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