The Gion Festival in Kyoto and Glocalization
Department for the Study of Religions, University of Cape Town, Cape Town 7700, South Africa
Religions 2022, 13(8), 689; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13080689
Submission received: 12 June 2022
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Revised: 20 July 2022
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Accepted: 22 July 2022
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Published: 27 July 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Globalization and East Asian Religions)
Abstract
The Gion Festival is a world-famous festival that takes place in Kyoto in July. It dates back to the Heian period (794–1185) and originated as a goryō-e ritual to placate departed spirits and disease-divinities. It is linked to the Yasaka Shrine, and it represents a great variety of religious and cultural influences. It is a complex and multidimensional event where issues of globalization can be seen at play at the local level. Against this background, this paper analyzes the Gion Festival as a religious and cultural phenomenon in relation to glocalization and the production of locality. In particular, it explores how the City of Kyoto represented the festival in connection with the 2030 United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the local–global interactions that relate to international tourism and global bureaucracy.
Keywords:
Gion Festival; glocalization; festivals; matsuri; locality; UNESCO; tourism
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Chicago/Turabian StylePorcu, Elisabetta. 2022. "The Gion Festival in Kyoto and Glocalization" Religions 13, no. 8: 689. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13080689
APA StylePorcu, E. (2022). The Gion Festival in Kyoto and Glocalization. Religions, 13(8), 689. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13080689
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