Women in Japanese Religions Sara Delano Moore emphasizing the healing power of

emphasizing the healing power of the therapeutic relationship

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and of the unaffected

She also depicts Phillips's interactions with fellow performers

Women in Japanese Religions Sara Delano Moore emphasizing the healing power ofScholars have widely acknowledged the persistent ambivalence with which the Japanese religious traditions treat women. Much existing scholarship depicts Japan's religious traditions as mere means of oppression. But this view raises a question: How have ambivalent and even misogynistic religious discourses on gender still come to inspire devotion and emulation among women? In Women in Japanese Religions, Barbara R. Ambros examines the roles that women