Immortal Wishes: Labor and Transcendence on a Japanese Sacred Mountain

"Ellen Schattschneider has given us an account of Japanese religious experience that is at once powerfully evocative and analytically sophisticated.Immortal Wishesis a remarkable book that should prove invaluable not only for students of Japan but also for anyone wanting to understand the transformative power of religious experience."-Bradd Shore, Emory UniversityEllen Schattschneider is the author of 'Immortal Wishes: Labor and Transcendence on a Japanese Sacred Mountain', published 2003 under ISBN 9780822330752 and ISBN 082233075X.