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• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 27,5 Mb
• Release Date : 24 May 2024

Helen Hardacre offers a sweeping, comprehensive history of Shinto, the tradition that is practiced by some 80 percent of the Japanese people and underlies the institution of the Emperor.

• Publisher : Trafford Publishing
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• Release Date : 26 February 2007

This book presents, for the first time, a collection of ancient Japanese Shinto prayers in a format where English speaking readers can both understand the deep meaning of the translated

• Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
• File Size : 37,8 Mb
• Release Date : 31 August 2004

Nine out of ten Japanese claim some affiliation with Shinto, but in the West the religion remains the least studied of the major Asian spiritual traditions. It is so interlaced

• Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
• File Size : 42,5 Mb
• Release Date : 13 September 2011

"An excellently rounded introduction by an eminent Shinto scholar."--Library Journal Shinto, the indigenous faith of the Japanese people, continues to fascinate and mystify both the casual visitor to Japan

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• File Size : 20,6 Mb
• Release Date : 24 May 2024

In Japan, two religions predominate--Buddhism and Shintoism--and the Japanese people see no contradiction in practicing both: worshipping Buddha even as they revere the kami, the divine beings that populate the

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 37,8 Mb
• Release Date : 02 September 2003

Shinto - A Short History provides an introductory outline of the historical development of Shinto from the ancient period of Japanese history until the present day. Shinto does not offer

• Publisher : Kodansha USA
• File Size : 45,6 Mb
• Release Date : 05 August 2010

In The Essence of Shinto, revered Shinto master Motohisa Yamakage explains the core values of Shinto and explores both basic tenets and its more esoteric points in terms readily accessible

• Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
• File Size : 47,7 Mb
• Release Date : 30 November 2012

Of Japan’s two great religious traditions, Shinto is far less known and understood in the West. Although there are a number of books that explain the religion and its

• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• File Size : 38,5 Mb
• Release Date : 13 September 2011

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

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• File Size : 45,9 Mb
• Release Date : 22 November 1994

Shinto is finally receiving the attention it deserves as a fundamental component of Japanese culture. Nevertheless, it remains a remarkably complex and elusive phenomenon to which Western categories of religion