Varieties of Healing in Present-Day Japan
In the 1990's healing has become a keyword in fields as various as religion, medicine, and art. There have been few efforts, however, to elucidate either the social background or common conceptions of this term. In this article healing is understood as an activity of holistic recovery, and an e...
| Published in: | Japanese journal of religious studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nanzan Institute
[1995]
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Japanese journal of religious studies
Year: 1995, Volume: 22, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 267-282 |
| Further subjects: | B
Nature
B Peacefulness B New age culture B Religious Studies B Crystals B Modern Medicine B Healing B Humanity B Medical cures B Economic bubbles |
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| Summary: | In the 1990's healing has become a keyword in fields as various as religion, medicine, and art. There have been few efforts, however, to elucidate either the social background or common conceptions of this term. In this article healing is understood as an activity of holistic recovery, and an exploration is made of its social background and spread in the youth culture of contemporary Japan. Although healing takes many forms in this subculture, fundamentally it is oriented towards harmony with others and with nature. Broad interest in healing began in the 1970s, increased through the popularization of New Age thought in the late 1980s, and became afixture in the 1990s. As the social background to this process, on the individual level we can identify a reaction against the separation of body and spirit in modern society and a protest against the attenuation of human relationships. On a wider social level, increased interest in environmental concerns has contributed to the current interest in healing. |
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