Spirit Tree
Williams, Leslie E. Despite what some scholarship has suggested, Shint does exhibit a unifying cognitive integrity. Spirit Tree offers a unique social psychological interpretation of Shint ritual at the Hakozaki Hachiman Shrine in Fukuoka, Japan and situates the cosmological organization of this practice within the larger context of ritual in East Asia. Employing a comparative approach, this study blends two theoretical orientations: cultural anthropology and Jun...