ISBN:
9780415774260
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9780415774253
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0415774268
,
041577425X
Language:
English
Pages:
XIV, 269 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Reader, Ian Review: Introducing Japanese Religion, by Robert Ellwood 2010
Series Statement:
World religions series
DDC:
200.952
Keywords:
Japan Religion
;
Einführung
;
Einführung
;
Einführung
;
Japan
;
Religion
Abstract:
"Introducing Japanese Religion" also includes illustrations, lively quotations from original sources, learning goals, summary boxes, questions for discussion, and suggestions for further reading, and a glossary, to aid study and revision.
Description / Table of Contents:
Encountering the Japanese religious world -- The past in the present : a survey of Japanese religions, starting at Ise and Nara -- The way of the Kami : Shinto then and now -- Interlude : introduction to Buddhism -- Early times : pre-Buddhist Japan and how Buddhism arrived -- Magic mountains and the old court : Heian Buddhism and its culture -- Warrior culture, simple faith : the Kamakura Buddhist reformation -- Swords and satori : Zen and its culture -- Christ and Confucius : the West arrives, and then Japan turns inward -- The rising sun and the dark valley : the Meiji restoration through 1945 -- Chanting and dancing : the new religions of Japan -- Pilgrimages : religion in Japan today
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