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Enduring Identities: the Guise of Shinto in Contemporary Japan

John Kenneth Nelson

出版	University of California, Berkeley, 1993
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=dWdMAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

I focus on the roles of the shrine's priests, its inner and outer circle of parishioners, and its relation to the tourist industry as some of the forces shaping the shrine's self-ascribed image as a guardian of Japanese cultural heritage. Since so much energy is invested in what I see as an ideology of continuity, I analyze the complex process whereby priests and lay constituents select, "invent," and maintain a highly reflexive sense of tradition--one capable of promoting an image of the past that mirrors and encodes public discourse about nostalgia for a pastoral age and deference to a national polity. This ideology also addresses the problematic nature of what it means to be Japanese vis-a-vis a deluge of international models of nationhood, citizenship, race, and social life in general.