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Japanese Religion: A Cultural Perspective
Robert S. Ellwood, Emeritus, University of Southern California
Richard Pilgrim, Syracuse University

ISBN-10: 0135092825
ISBN-13: 9780135092828

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 1985
Format: Paper; 176 pp
Published: 12/01/1984

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This book provides an overview of religion in Japan, from ancient times to the present. It also emphasizes the cultural and attitudinal manifestations of religion in Japan, withough neglecting dates and places.

  • gives the reader an understanding of what has been called the Japanese “genius”.
  • covers Japan's cultural influence on the world in everything from design and architecture to technology and the art of labor management.
  • features the evolution and present practice of Shinto, Confucianism, Taosim, Buddhism, and more.



Foreword.


Preface.

I. A PANORAMA OF JAPANESE RELIGION.

Introduction.

Moments and Memories: An Imaginary Tour.

Japanese Religion in Historical Perspective.

Countercultures.

II. SPECIFIC PATTERNS IN THE RELIGION OF JAPAN.

Religion and the Arts.

Conceptual Worlds.

Ritual and the Practice of Religion.

Religion and Society.

Japan in Change and Continuity.

Appendix: Brief Summaries of Major Japanese Religious Traditions.

Glossary.

Bibliography.

Index.

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