Introducing Japanese religion / Robert S. Ellwood

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2008Description: xiv, 269 p. ; ill., map ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0-415-77426-8 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 978-0-415-77426-0 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0-415-77425-X (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 978-0-415-77425-3 (hardback : alk. paper)
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Contents:
Encountering the Japanese religious world -- The past in the present : vignettes of Japanese spiritual life -- The way of the Kami : Shinto then and now -- Interlude : introduction to Buddhism -- Early times : pre-Buddhist Japan and how Buddhism arrived -- Magic mountains and the old court : Heian Buddhism and its culture -- Warrior culture, simple faith : the Kamakura Buddhist reformation -- Swords and satori : Zen and its culture -- Christ and Confucius : the West arrives, and then Japan turns inward -- The rising sun and the dark valley : from the Meiji restoration until 1945 -- Chanting and dancing : shugendo and the new religions of Japan -- Pilgrimages : religion in Japan 1945 to the present.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-260) and index.

Encountering the Japanese religious world -- The past in the present : vignettes of Japanese spiritual life -- The way of the Kami : Shinto then and now -- Interlude : introduction to Buddhism -- Early times : pre-Buddhist Japan and how Buddhism arrived -- Magic mountains and the old court : Heian Buddhism and its culture -- Warrior culture, simple faith : the Kamakura Buddhist reformation -- Swords and satori : Zen and its culture -- Christ and Confucius : the West arrives, and then Japan turns inward -- The rising sun and the dark valley : from the Meiji restoration until 1945 -- Chanting and dancing : shugendo and the new religions of Japan -- Pilgrimages : religion in Japan 1945 to the present.

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