But then here, on another level, a question similar to that of the Christians above arises: when is human action…
Chika Watanabe
Chika Watanabe is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University. Her dissertation looks at how a Shinto-based Japanese NGO strives to create certain forms of persons and notions of community through agricultural and "spiritual" trainings in the ambiguous space between "the religious" and "the secular."
Elsewhere, in the saturation of the body
July 27, 2011
About eight months into my fieldwork, I began to have dreams about the morning disciplinary routines at OISCA’s training centers.…
Religion as culture in “spiritual cultivation”
July 11, 2011
Despite its roots in a religious entity, OISCA [The Organization for Industrial, Spiritual and Cultural Advancement] is registered as a…