Buddhas and Kami in Japan - Honji Suijaku as a Combinatory Paradigm (Paperback)

This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the combinatory tradition that dominated premodern and early modern Japanese religion, known as honji suijaku (originals and their traces). It questions received, simplified accounts of the interactions between Shinto and Japanese Buddhism, and presents a more dynamic and variegated religious world, one in which the deities' Buddhist originals and local traces did not constitute one-to-one associations, but complex combinations of multiple deities based on semiotic operations, doctrines, myths, and legends. The book's essays, all based on specific case studies, discuss the honji suijaku paradigm from a number of different perspectives, always integrating historical and doctrinal analysis with interpretive insights.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2015
First published:	2003
Editors:	Fabio Rambelli • Mark Teeuwen
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	384
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-96516-4
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > General Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Promotions
LSN:	1-138-96516-2
Barcode:	9781138965164

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