The Gion Festival in Kyoto and Glocalization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3497649 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elisabetta Porcu (0000-0002-3074-5754, University of Cape Town, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 689 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel13080689 |
| OpenAlex | W4288081164 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
The Gion Festival is a world-famous festival that takes place in Kyoto in July. It dates back to the Heian period (794-1185) and originated as a goryō-e ritual to placate departed spirits and disease-divinities. It is linked to the Yasaka Shrine, and it represents a great variety of religious and cultural influences. It is a complex and multidimensional event where issues of globalization can be seen at play at the local level. Against this background, this paper analyzes the Gion Festival as a religious and cultural phenomenon in relation to glocalization and the production of locality. In particular, it explores how the City of Kyoto represented the festival in connection with the 2030 United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the local-global interactions that relate to international tourism and global bureaucracy
Archaeology · Bureaucracy · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Environmental ethics · Geography · Globalization · Glocalization · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Tourism · Asian Culture and Media Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
Making Intangible Heritage
Tradition, Democracy and the Townscape of Kyoto
Glocalization
Handbook of Culture and Glocalization
Gion Matsuri in Kyoto
The Conceptual Formation of the Category “Religion” in Modern Japan
Observations on the Blurring of the Religious and the Secular in a Japanese Urban Setting
Global Modernities
Pop Religion in Japan
Shinto festival involvement and sense of self in contemporary Japan
On Placating the Gods and Pacifying the Populace
Transnationalism, Cosmopolitanism and Glocalization
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