Japan’s Sacred Sumo and the Exclusion of Women: The Olympic Male Sumo Wrestler (Part 1)
The 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo offer a fitting and timely point of departure to consider the religion-based exclusion of women and, by extension, to peer into the nation-culture-religion-gender nexus in Japan. The Japan Sumo Association, a quasi-governmental corporation, champions itself as...
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Religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 12, Issue: 9 |
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B Sacred Space B Cultural Nationalism B Japanese religions B sumo wrestling B Gender B Sports |
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