Description: On Understanding Japanese Religion, Paperback by Kitagawa, Joseph Mitsuo, ISBN 0691102295, ISBN-13 9780691102290, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
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 Japans 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.
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Book Title: On Understanding Japanese Religion
Number of Pages: 367 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: On Understanding Japanese Religion
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Year: 1987
Subject: Buddhism / General (See Also Philosophy / Buddhist), Eastern
Item Height: 1 in
Features: Limited Edition
Item Weight: 19 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Religion
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
