Alternate Currents : : Reiki’s Circulation in the Twentieth-Century North Pacific / / Justin B. Stein.

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• VerfasserIn: Stein, Justin B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (332 p.) :; 15 b&w illustrations

In the second half of the twentieth century, Reiki went from an obscure therapy practiced by a few thousand Japanese and Japanese Americans to a global phenomenon. By the early twenty-first century, people in nearly every corner of the world have undergone the initiations that authorize them to chan...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Notes on Orthography and Translation
• Introduction
• 1 Seeds of a Transpacific Network: A Young Woman on Kaua‘i, 1900–1930
• 2 Drawn into the Current: Encountering Usui Reiki Therapy’s Japa nese Circulation, 1922–1937
• 3 Healing at the Hub of the Transwar Pacific: Adapting Reiki for Nikkei Hawai‘i, 1937–1960
• 4 Building Authority in the Cold War United States: Networks, Esotericism, and Alterity in White Amer i ca, 1948–1972
• 5 Coupling Universalism and “Japa nese” Values: Making North American Masters, 1972–1980
• Conclusion
• Glossary of Japanese Names and Terms
• Notes
• References
• Index
• About the Author