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References: Gender and Spirituality

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I. Women's role in Non-Institutionalized Religion and Shamanism

Blacker, Carmen. The Catalpa Bow: a study in shamanistic practices in Japan. Richmond : Japan Library, 1999.

Ikegami, Yoshimasa. "Local Newspaper Coverage of Shamans in Aomori Prefecture." Folk Beliefs in Japan website. Hosted by Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University. October 21, 2000 http://www.kokugakuin.ac.jp/ijcc/wp/cpjr/folkbeliefs/ikegami.html

Ivy, Marilyn. Discourses of the Vanishing: modernity, phantasm, Japan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Kawamura, Kunimitsu. "The Life of a Shamanness: Scenes from the Shamanism of Northeastern Japan" Folk Beliefs in Japan website. Hosted by Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University. October 21, 2000 http://www.kokugakuin.ac.jp/ijcc/wp/cpjr/folkbeliefs/kawamura.html


Ooms, Emily Grozos. Women and the Millenarian Protest in Meiji Japan. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University East Asia Program, 1993.