ENGLISH

A New History of Shinto

By John Breen , Mark Teeuwen

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2010
ISBN
1405155159, 978-1-4051-5515-1, 978-1-4051-5516-8
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3980703 bytes)
Series
Wiley Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion
Edition
1
Pages
280\278
Time added
2014-02-12 18:00:00

Description

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 researchExamines 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 JapanTraces 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 todayChallenges the historic stereotype of Shinto as the unchanging, all-defining core of Japanese culture

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