Richard Bowring describes in outline the development of Japanese
religious thought and practice from the introduction of writing to
the point at which medieval attitudes gave way to a distinctive
pre-modern culture, a change that brought an end to the dominance
of religious institutions. A wide range of approaches using the
resources of art, history, social and intellectual history, as well
as doctrine is brought to bear on the subject. The result is as
full a picture as possible of the richness of the Japanese
tradition as it succeeded in holding together on the one hand
Buddhism, with its sophisticated intellectual structures, and on
the other hand the disparate local cults that eventually achieved a
kind of unity under the rubric of Shinto. An understanding of this
process of constant and at times difficult interaction is essential
to a deeper appreciation of Japan's history and its cultural
achievements.
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