Author: Davis, Winston Bradley
Title: Dojo : Magic and Exorcism in Modern Japan
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, (1980). orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. 22x14cm, xvi,332 pp. Textual photo illustrations. Minor rubbing. Some page-edge soil. VG. ¶ Study of Sukyo Mahikarui (True-Light Supra-Religious Organization), an exorcistic sect in Japan. Contents: A Lady in White Comes to the Door; Learning Mioshie; The Spirit History of the Yosdhida Family; The Lost Continent of Mu & Other Revelations; Gospel Sources; Why People Join the Doho; The Psychology of Possession & Exorcism; Women & Their Sexual Karma; The Magician's Will; When Okiyome Fails; Upward Religious Mobility; The Cunning of Magic & Reason.

Keywords: Sociology of Religion, Japan, East Asia, Sukyo Mahikari, Exorcism, Magic, Anthropology, Ethnography,