Introducing Japanese religion
By: Robert Ellwood.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415774253; 9780415774260
Subjects: Japan -- Religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Encountering the Japanese religious world; title: The past in the present : a survey of Japanese religions, starting at Ise and Nara; title: The way of the Kami : Shinto then and now; title: Interlude : introduction to Buddhism; title: Early times : pre-Buddhist Japan and how Buddhism arrived; title: Magic mountains and the old court : Heian Buddhism and its culture; title: Warrior culture, simple faith : the Kamakura Buddhist reformation; title: Swords and satori : Zen and its culture; title: Christ and Confucius : the West arrives, and then Japan turns inward; title: The rising sun and the dark valley : the Meiji restoration through 1945; title: Chanting and dancing : the new religions of Japan; title: Pilgrimages : religion in Japan today.