Alan L Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3736624 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan L Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan L |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Miami University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Fox and the Jewel: Shared and Private Meanings in Contemporary Japanese Inari Worship . Karen A. Smyers
Shifting Shape, Shaping Text: Philosophy and Folklore in the Fox Koan. Steven Heine
Spiritual Accomplishment by Misdirection: Some "Upāya" Folktales from East Asia
A Stinger in the Tale the "Sudden Awakening" Ending in East Asian Folktales
The A. explores category-formation in narrative analysis of folktales by arguing that a new motif be recognized in what he calls the sudden awakening episode found in a number of tales from China and Japan. He summarizes a number of apparently related tales, makes some comparisons among them, and argues that Ch'an/Zen Buddhism probably has had a good deal to do with the invention or reinforcement of this sudden awakening motif. He further argues …
Spirits of the Wild: The World's Great Nature Myths
The Woman Who Married a Horse: Five Ways of Looking at a Chinese Folktale
This tale, first encountered in the fourth-century collection Sou-shen chi, contains motifs from several disparate geo-cultural sources, but appears to have originated in China in response to a particular historical and religio-cultural situation. The tale is compared to the Swan-maiden folktale, the Dema-deity myth, and archaic hunting-culture containment tales that feature magical transformations by means of containment in an animal hide or fea…
日本民間伝承の源流: 日本基層文化の探究 [Sources of Japanese Folk Tradition: Research into the Basic Strata of Japanese Culture]
Myth and Gender in Japanese Shamanism: The "Itako" of Tohoku
Ritual Poetry and the Politics of Death in Early Japan . Gary L. Ebersole
On Replacing Straw Men with Real People Early Kamakura Buddhism . Robert E. Morrell
The Swan-Maiden Revisited: Religious Significance of "Divine-Wife" Folktales with Special Reference to Japan
The swan-maiden folktale or motif enjoyed a certain vogue in the study of folklore in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It has now fallen on hard times, having dropped out of most popular folktale anthologies, and enjoys only the most cursory mention in more serious scholarly works. It is accorded only parenthetical mention in Antti Aarne's tale type index (Aarne 1910), where under the general rubric no. 400, Supernatural or Magical H…
Of Weavers and Birds: Structure and Symbol in Japanese Myth and Folktale
Papers in Comparative Studies. Vol. 3: Religion in the Modern World . Marilyn R. Waldman , Hao Chang
Book Notices
Book Notices Get access The Cult of the Serpent: An Interdisciplinary Survey of Its Manifestations and Origins. By Balaji Mundkur. State University of New York Press, 1983. 363 pages. $39.50. Alan L. Miller Alan L. Miller Miami University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LII, Issue 1, March 1984, Pages 205–206, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LII.1.205 Publ…
"Ame No Miso-Ori Me" (The Heavenly Weaving Maiden): The Cosmic Weaver in Early Shinto Myth and Ritual
Ritsuryō Japan: The State as Liturgical Community
Folk Religion in Japan: Continuity and Change
Folk Religion in Japan (Continuity and Change)
Folk Religion in Japan: Continuity and Change
The Woman Who Married a Horse: Five Ways of Looking at a Chinese Folktale
This tale, first encountered in the fourth-century collection Sou-shen chi, contains motifs from several disparate geo-cultural sources, but appears to have originated in China in response to a particular historical and religio-cultural situation. The tale is compared to the Swan-maiden folktale, the Dema-deity myth, and archaic hunting-culture containment tales that feature magical transformations by means of containment in an animal hide or fea…
Folk Religion in Japan (Continuity and Change)
Myth and Gender in Japanese Shamanism: The "Itako" of Tohoku
The Swan-Maiden Revisited: Religious Significance of "Divine-Wife" Folktales with Special Reference to Japan
The swan-maiden folktale or motif enjoyed a certain vogue in the study of folklore in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It has now fallen on hard times, having dropped out of most popular folktale anthologies, and enjoys only the most cursory mention in more serious scholarly works. It is accorded only parenthetical mention in Antti Aarne's tale type index (Aarne 1910), where under the general rubric no. 400, Supernatural or Magical H…
"Ame No Miso-Ori Me" (The Heavenly Weaving Maiden): The Cosmic Weaver in Early Shinto Myth and Ritual
Folk Religion in Japan (Continuity and Change)
Folk Religion in Japan: Continuity and Change
Ritsuryō Japan: The State as Liturgical Community
Folk Religion in Japan: Continuity and Change
Book Notices
Book Notices Get access The Cult of the Serpent: An Interdisciplinary Survey of Its Manifestations and Origins. By Balaji Mundkur. State University of New York Press, 1983. 363 pages. $39.50. Alan L. Miller Alan L. Miller Miami University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LII, Issue 1, March 1984, Pages 205–206, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LII.1.205 Publ…
"Ame No Miso-Ori Me" (The Heavenly Weaving Maiden): The Cosmic Weaver in Early Shinto Myth and Ritual
Papers in Comparative Studies. Vol. 3: Religion in the Modern World . Marilyn R. Waldman , Hao Chang
The Swan-Maiden Revisited: Religious Significance of "Divine-Wife" Folktales with Special Reference to Japan
The swan-maiden folktale or motif enjoyed a certain vogue in the study of folklore in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It has now fallen on hard times, having dropped out of most popular folktale anthologies, and enjoys only the most cursory mention in more serious scholarly works. It is accorded only parenthetical mention in Antti Aarne's tale type index (Aarne 1910), where under the general rubric no. 400, Supernatural or Magical H…
Of Weavers and Birds: Structure and Symbol in Japanese Myth and Folktale
On Replacing Straw Men with Real People Early Kamakura Buddhism . Robert E. Morrell
Ritual Poetry and the Politics of Death in Early Japan . Gary L. Ebersole
日本民間伝承の源流: 日本基層文化の探究 [Sources of Japanese Folk Tradition: Research into the Basic Strata of Japanese Culture]
Myth and Gender in Japanese Shamanism: The "Itako" of Tohoku
The Woman Who Married a Horse: Five Ways of Looking at a Chinese Folktale
This tale, first encountered in the fourth-century collection Sou-shen chi, contains motifs from several disparate geo-cultural sources, but appears to have originated in China in response to a particular historical and religio-cultural situation. The tale is compared to the Swan-maiden folktale, the Dema-deity myth, and archaic hunting-culture containment tales that feature magical transformations by means of containment in an animal hide or fea…
Spirits of the Wild: The World's Great Nature Myths
A Stinger in the Tale the "Sudden Awakening" Ending in East Asian Folktales
The A. explores category-formation in narrative analysis of folktales by arguing that a new motif be recognized in what he calls the sudden awakening episode found in a number of tales from China and Japan. He summarizes a number of apparently related tales, makes some comparisons among them, and argues that Ch'an/Zen Buddhism probably has had a good deal to do with the invention or reinforcement of this sudden awakening motif. He further argues …
Spiritual Accomplishment by Misdirection: Some "Upāya" Folktales from East Asia
The Fox and the Jewel: Shared and Private Meanings in Contemporary Japanese Inari Worship . Karen A. Smyers
Shifting Shape, Shaping Text: Philosophy and Folklore in the Fox Koan. Steven Heine
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