RT Article
T1 A Pragmatics of Ritual: The Yoshida Goma at the Interface of Shintō and Shingon
JF Religions
VO 12
IS 10
A1 Payne, Richard K. 1949-
LA English
PB MDPI
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1794965882
AB Drawing on practices and teachings from Daoism, neo-Confucianism, and tantric Buddhism, Yoshida Kanetomo (1435-1511) created the system of Yuiitsu Shintō, also known eponymously as Yoshida Shintō, all the while making claims for Shintō as the world’s original religion. Important for the establishment of Yoshida Shintō was the creation of a program of rituals. This essay examines one of the three rituals created for the Yoshida ritual program, the Yoshida Shintō goma ritual, which hybridizes tantric Buddhist ritual organization and Daoist symbolism. A pragmatics of ritual is developed as a means of identifying the factors that Yoshida felt were salient in presenting the goma as a Yoshida Shintō ritual.
K1 Shingon
K1 Yoshida Shintō
K1 goma
K1 Pragmatics
K1 Ritual
K1 tantric Buddhism
DO 10.3390/rel12100884