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A New History of Shinto
eBook - Wiley Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion
ISBN/EAN: 9781444357684
Umbreit-Nr.: 3660309
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 288 S., 1.52 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 13.09.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- This accessible guide to the development of Japans 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 Shintos enduring religious identity.<ul type="disc"><li>Offers a unique new approach to Shinto history that combines critical analysis with original research</li><li>Examines 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 Japan</li><li>Traces 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 today</li><li>Challenges the historic stereotype of Shinto as the unchanging, all-defining core of Japanese culture</li></ul>
- Autorenportrait
- <b>John Breen</b> is Reader in Japanese at SOAS (University of London) and Associate Professor at the International Research Centre for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, where he edits the journal<i>Japan Review</i>. His publications include<i>Yasukuni, the War Dead and the Struggle for Japans Past</i> (edited, 2008), Inoue Nobutaka,<i>Shint: A Short History</i> (translated and adapted with Mark Teeuwen, 2002),<i>Shint in History: Ways of the Kami</i> (edited with Mark Teeuwen, 2000), and<i>Japan and Christianity: Impacts and Responses</i>, (edited with Mark Williams, 1996).<p><b>Mark Teeuwen</b> is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Oslo. As well as the books authored and edited with John Breen, he is co-editor of<i>Buddhas and Kami in Japan: Honji Suijaku as a Combinatory Paradigm</i> (with Fabio Rambelli, 2003) and<i>The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion</i> (with Bernhard Scheid, 2006).</p>