Dojo : Magic and Exorcism in Modern Japan

Davis, Winston Bradley

Published by Stanford University Press (1980), Stanford, 1980

About this Item

22x14cm, xvi,332 pp Study of Sukyo Mahikarui (True-Light Supra-Religious Organization), an exorcistic sect in Japan. Contents: A Lady in White Comes to the Door; Learning Mioshie; The Spirit History of the Yosdhida Family; The Lost Continent of Mu & Other Revelations; Gospel Sources; Why People Join the Doho; The Psychology of Possession & Exorcism; Women & Their Sexual Karma; The Magician's Will; When Okiyome Fails; Upward Religious Mobility; The Cunning of Magic & Reason. Minor rubbing. Some page-edge soil. VG., dustwrapper.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dojo : Magic and Exorcism in Modern Japan
• Publisher: Stanford University Press (1980), Stanford
• Publication Date: 1980
• Binding: orig.cloth
• Illustrator: Textual photo illustrations
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sociology of Religion