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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