A New History of Shinto

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Eastern Religions, General Eastern Religions
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Author: John Breen, Mark Teeuwen ISBN: 9781444357684
Publisher: Wiley Publication: September 13, 2011
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell Language: English
Author: John Breen, Mark Teeuwen
ISBN: 9781444357684
Publisher: Wiley
Publication: September 13, 2011
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English

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 research
  • 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
  • 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
  • Challenges the historic stereotype of Shinto as the unchanging, all-defining core of Japanese culture
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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.

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