Shinto in History
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Shinto in History

Ways of the Kami

  1. 368 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Shinto in History

Ways of the Kami

About this book

This is the only book to date offering a critical overview of Shinto from early times to the modern era, and evaluating Shinto's place in Japanese religious culture. In recent years, a few books on medieval Shinto have appeared, but none has attempted to depict the broader picture, to examine critically Shinto's origins and its subsequent development through the medieval, pre-modern and modern periods. The essays in this book address such key topics as Shinto and Daoism in early Japan, Shinto and the natural environment, Shinto and state ritual in early Japan, Shinto and Buddhism in medieval Japan, and Shinto and the state in the modern period. All of the essays highlight the dynamic nature of Shinto and shrine history by focusing on the three-way relationship, often fraught, between local shrine cults, Shinto agendas and Buddhism.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781136827044
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Ethnic Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. CONTENTS
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Contributors
  9. Map of Japan
  10. Chapter One Introduction: Shinto past and present
  11. Chapter Two Shinto and Taoism in early Japan
  12. Chapter Three Shinto and the natural environment
  13. Chapter Four The state cult of the Nara and early Heian periods
  14. Chapter Five The economics of ritual power
  15. Chapter Six The kami in esoteric Buddhist thought and practice
  16. Chapter Seven Reading the Yuiitsu Shintō myōbō yōshu: A modern exegesis of an esoteric Shinto text
  17. Chapter Eight The death of a shogun: deification in early modern Japan
  18. Chapter Nine Changing images of Shinto: Sanja takusen or the three oracles
  19. Chapter Ten Mapping the Sacred Body: Shinto versus popular beliefs at Mt. Iwaki in Tsugaru
  20. Chapter Eleven Nativism as a social movement: Katagiri Harukazu and the Hongaku reisha
  21. Chapter Twelve Ideologues, bureaucrats and priests: on ‘Shinto’ and ‘Buddhism’ in early Meiji Japan
  22. Chapter Thirteen Shinto as a ‘non-religion’: the origins and development of an idea
  23. Chapter Fourteen The structure of state Shinto: its creation, development and demise
  24. Chapter Fifteen The disfiguring of nativism: Hirata Atsutane and Orikuchi Shinobu
  25. Chapter Sixteen Tanaka Yoshitō and the beginnings of Shintōgaku
  26. Bibliography
  27. Index