The essays in this volume cover a wide range of topics on Shinto and kami in history, including the profound formative influence of Taoism on Shinto in early Japan; the relationship between shrine cults and nature; the role of shrine and temple ritual in the Japanese state of the Heian period; kami in esoteric Buddhist thought and ritual; the deification of Tokugawa Ieyasu; "state Shinto" in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; the thought of Tanaka Yoshito, the founding father of modern Shinto studies.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8248-2362-7 (9780824823627)
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Senior Lecturer in Japanese, SOAS, University of London
Lecturer in Japanese, University of Oslo, Norway
