Shinto in History: Ways of the Kami 082482363X, 9780824823634

This is the only book to date offering a critical overview of Shinto from early times to the modern era, and evaluating

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English Pages 368 [382] Year 2000

Shinto in History: Ways of the Kami
082482363X, 9780824823634

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John Breen
Mark Teeuwen

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Table of contents :
Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Map of Japan
Chapter 1. Introduction: Shinto Past and Present, by John Breen and Mark Teeuwen
Chapter 2. Shinto and Taoism in Early Japan, by Tim Barrett
Chapter 3. Shinto and the Natural Environment, by Sonoda Minoru
Chapter 4. The State Cult of the Nara and Early Heian Periods, by Nelly Naumann
Chapter 5. The Economics of Ritual Power, by Allan G. Grapard
Chapter 6. The Kami in Esoteric Buddhist Thought and Practice, by Mark Teeuwen
Chapter 7. Reading the Yuiitsu Shintō Myōbō Yōshū: A Modern Exegesis of an Esoteric Shinto Text, by Bernhard Scheid
Chapter 8. The Death of a Shogun: Deification in Early Modern Japan, by W. J. Boot
Chapter 9. Changing Images of Shinto: Sanja Takusen or the Three Oracles, by Brian Bocking
Chapter 10. Mapping the Sacred Body: Shinto versus Popular Beliefs at Mt. Iwaki in Tsugaru, by Nicola Liscutin
Chapter 11. Nativism as a Social Movement: Katagiri Harukazu and the Hongaku Reisha, by Anne Walthall
Chapter 12. Ideologues, Bureaucrats and Priests: On ‘Shinto’ and ‘Buddhism’ in Early Meiji Japan, by John Breen
Chapter 13. Shinto as a ‘Non-Religion’: The Origins and Development of an Idea, by Nitta Hitoshi
Chapter 14. The Structure of State Shinto: Its Creation, Development and Demise, by Sakamoto Koremaru
Chapter 15. The Disfiguring of Nativism: Hirata Atsutane and Orikuchi Shinobu, by Kamata Tōji
Chapter 16. Tanaka Yoshitō and the Beginnings of Shintōgaku, by Isomae Jun’ichi
Bibliography
Index

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