Author Description

1. Introduction -- Part 1: Intellectual History of Shugendo Studies -- 2. A Critical History of the Study of Shugendo and Mountain Beliefs in Japan, Suzuki Masataka (Keio University, Japan) Part 2: Constructed Topologies and Invented Chronologies -- 3. Shugendo within Japanese Buddhism, Hasegawa Kenji (Prefectural Museum of Tokushima, Japan) -- 4. Imagining an Ancient Tradition: Eighteenth-Century Narratives of Shugendo at Mount Togakushi, -- Caleb Carter (Kyushu University, Japan) -- 5. Otake Dainichi Nyorai and Haguro Shugendo: Unearthing a Lost History, Gaynor Sekimori (SOAS, University of London, UK) -- 6. Shugendo and Modernity Face to Face: The Daigoji Case, Hayashi Makoto (Aichi Gakuin University, Japan) -- Part 3: Imagining the Founder, En no Gyoja, and Fictionalizing Shugendo -- 7. Between Companionship and Worship: A Reflection on En no Gyoja Statuary Past and Present, -- Carina Roth (University of Geneva, Switzerland) -- 8. En no Gyoja's Legitimization in the Context of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism, Kawasaki Tsuyoshi (Shujitsu University, Japan -- 9. The Description of Mountains in Minoodera engi, Niki Natsumi (National Institute of Technology, Akashi College, Japan) -- 10. Images of the Shugenja in Edo Popular Fiction, William Fleming (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) -- Part 4: Materiality and Visual Culture of Shugendo -- 11. The Cult and Statuary of Zao Gongen, Fujioka Yutata (Osaka University, Japan) -- 12. Religious Culture in Transition: Mt. Fuji, Janine Sawada (Brown University, USA) -- 13. The Shape of Devotion: Mounds, Stelae, and Empowering Ritual Fasting, Andrea Castiglioni (Nagoya City University, Japan -- 14. Shugendo as Social Practice: Kumano Talismans and Inscribed Oaths in Premodern Japan, (Max Moerman (Barnard College, USA) -- Bibliography -- Index.