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On Understanding Japanese Religion (Paperback, Limited Ed) Loot Price: R1,304
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On Understanding Japanese Religion (Paperback, Limited Ed): Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa

On Understanding Japanese Religion (Paperback, Limited Ed)

Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa

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Joseph Kitagawa, one of the founders of the field of history of religions and an eminent scholar of the religions of Japan, published his classic book "Religion in Japanese History" in 1966. Since then, he has written a number of extremely influential essays that illustrate approaches to the study of Japanese religious phenomena. To date, these essays have remained scattered in various scholarly journals. This book makes available nineteen of these articles, important contributions to our understanding of Japan's intricate combination of indigenous Shinto, Confucianism, Taoism, the Yin-Yang School, Buddhism, and folk religion. In sections on prehistory, the historic development of Japanese religion, the Shinto tradition, the Buddhist tradition, and the modem phase of the Japanese religious tradition, the author develops a number of valuable methodological approaches. The volume also includes an appendix on Buddhism in America.

Asserting that the study of Japanese religion is more than an umbrella term covering investigations of separate traditions, Professor Kitagawa approaches the subject from an interdisciplinary standpoint. Skillfully combining political, cultural, and social history, he depicts a Japan that seems a microcosm of the religious experience of humankind.

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Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: October 1987
First published: October 1987
Authors: Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 367
Edition: Limited Ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-10229-0
Categories: Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Oriental religions > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Oriental religions > General
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LSN: 0-691-10229-5
Barcode: 9780691102290

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