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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