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reference work with more than a thousand entries on Shinto ranging from brief definitions and Japanese terms to short essays dealing with aspects of Shinto practice belief and institutions from early times up to the present day Historical
Oct 1, 2019 · The Essence of Shinto: Japan's Spiritual Heart by Motohisa Yamakage, available here in EPUB, AZW3, and PDF formats. Book Description: 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 to the modern Western ...
Shinto has long been regarded as a crucial element in Japanese reli- gion that gives it distinctiveness and individuality. The common man's view of Shinto usually includes the following assumptions: Shinto bears the unmistakable characteristics of a primitive religion, including nature worship and taboos against kegare (impurities), but
unchanging all defining core of Japanese culture Shinto Helen Hardacre,2017 Helen Hardacre offers for the first time in any language a sweeping comprehensive history of Shinto the tradition that is practiced by some 80% of the Japanese people
Shintō (and Buddhism) in the context of Japanese religion. These problems are: a) That the term ‚Shintō™ has no agreed meaning. b) That the term ‚religion™ is problematic in the Japanese context, particu-larly when used in relation to Shintō. These are hardly new observations, but in this paper I am not going to indulge in
students of Japanese religions will have some knowledge of Shinto, but one may ask why their studies are usually focused on a certain period, a particular shrine, or an aspect of Shinto, and why has there been no comprehensive study of Shinto’s history in a foreign language.
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but always critically, across different Shinto themes in premodern and modern Japanese history. A New History of Shinto is a co-authored book, and we shared the research and writing load equally. Mark Teeuwen was responsible for Chapters 1 and 4; John Breen wrote Chapters 5 and 6. Chapters 2 and 3, as well as the Conclusion, were co-written ...
