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The Spiritual Migrants of Sogenji: Notes of Participant Observation in a Rinzai Zen Temple 자세히보기
  • 자료유형학술지논문
  • 저자명Andrei-Razvan Coltea
  • 학회/출판사/기관명Technological University Dublin
  • 출판년도2023
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage
  • 발행사항Volume 11, Issue 2
  • ISBN/ISSN2009-7379
  • 소개/요약Anomie is a cultural pathology that is becoming chronic in the West, characterized by the erosion of values, disintegration and deregulation. Amongst its symptoms we find anxiety, isolation, depression, tribalism, incoherence and loss of meaning. Individuo-globalism is a new ideology that permeates the religious market created by globalisation, encouraging individuals to discover, nurture and express their ‘true self’. This new spirituality forms the background for a journey that our ‘heroes’, a handful of non-Japanese inhabitants of a Japanese Rinzai Zen monastery, have been undertaking for years in search of the philosopher’s stone that could cure anomie and its symptoms. At first glance, they seem to have become authentic Buddhist monks. Our research tries to go beyond appearances.