Author: Arcadio Schwade
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-11-27
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9004658262
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Joseph M. Kitagawa
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1990-11-21
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9780231515092
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tracing Japan's religions from the Hein Period through the middle ages and into modernity, this book explores the unique establishment of Shinto, Buddhism, and Confucianism in Japan, as well as the later influence of Roman Catholicism, and the problem of Restoration--both spiritual and material--following World War II.
Author: Jozef Rogala
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-10-12
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1136639233
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Provides an invaluable and very accessible addition to existing biographic sources and references, not least because of the supporting biographies of major writers and the historical and cultural notes provided.
Author: Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2021-02-09
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 0691224234
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Joseph Kitagawa, one of the founders of the field of history of religions and an eminent scholar of the religions of Japan, published his classic book Religion in Japanese History in 1966. Since then, he has written a number of extremely influential essays that illustrate approaches to the study of Japanese religious phenomena. To date, these essays have remained scattered in various scholarly journals. This book makes available nineteen of these articles, important contributions to our understanding of Japan's intricate combination of indigenous Shinto, Confucianism, Taoism, the Yin-Yang School, Buddhism, and folk religion. In sections on prehistory, the historic development of Japanese religion, the Shinto tradition, the Buddhist tradition, and the modem phase of the Japanese religious tradition, the author develops a number of valuable methodological approaches. The volume also includes an appendix on Buddhism in America. Asserting that the study of Japanese religion is more than an umbrella term covering investigations of separate traditions, Professor Kitagawa approaches the subject from an interdisciplinary standpoint. Skillfully combining political, cultural, and social history, he depicts a Japan that seems a microcosm of the religious experience of humankind.