A New History of Shinto Paperback / softback
by John (International Research Centre for Japanese studies, Kyoto, Japan) Breen, Mark (University of Oslo, Norway) Teeuwen
Part of the Wiley Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion series
Paperback / softback
Description
This accessible guide to the development of Japan’s indigenous religion from ancient times to the present day offers an illuminating introduction to the myths, sites and rituals of kami worship, and their role in Shinto’s enduring religious identity. Offers a unique new approach to Shinto history that combines critical analysis with original researchExamines key evolutionary moments in the long history of Shinto, including the Meiji Revolution of 1868, and provides the first critical history in English or Japanese of the Hie shrine, one of the most important in all JapanTraces the development of various shrines, myths, and rituals through history as uniquely diverse phenomena, exploring how and when they merged into the modern notion of Shinto that exists in Japan todayChallenges the historic stereotype of Shinto as the unchanging, all-defining core of Japanese culture
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:12/01/2010
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- ISBN:9781405155168
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:12/01/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9781405155168
