Table of Contents

Introduction
Prologue: Okinawan History, Henza Village, and Methodology
Part I: Divine Dis-order
1: Divine Dis-order: On Social Planes
2: Divine Dis-order: On Cosmological Planes
Part II: Questions of Gender
3: Gender in an Egalitarian Society
4: Gender Separation and Social Integration
5: Women and Men and Ritual
Part III: Sitting in the Seat of the Gods
6: Priestesses and Ritual: Feeding the Kami-sama
7: Divine Dis-order: Signs, Symptoms, and Sitting in the Right Seat
8: Born to Be Kami-sama
Part IV: Questions of Power
9: The Problematics of Power
10: Priestesses, Yuta, and Ogami People
Part V: Deconstructing Gender
11: Un-gendering Religious Discourse
12: Gender Bending(?) and Ritual Deconstruction
Conclusion: Religion, Power, and the Sanctification of Gender
Appendixes:
1. Glossary of Japanese and Okinawan Words
2. Dramatis Personae
Notes
References
Index

Reviews

"The value of this sensitive study rests in its close attention to gender-related issues....This is a valuable addition to the literature on this relatively understudied area of the world."--Religious Studies Review