Shugendo
Subtitle: Essays on the Structure of Japanese Folk Religion (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies)
Contributors: H. Byron Earhart (Editor)
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: July 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780939512058
Subjects: Comparative Religion; Eastern - General; Folklore & Mythology - Folklore; Religion; Sociology; Japan; Religious life and customs; Shugen (Sect)
Description: "This volume of essays is the first comprehensive publication in English of the work of Miyake Hitoshi, a distinguished scholar of Shugendo (mountain asceticism) and one of the foremost researchers on Japanese folk religion.

Miyake defines folk religion as "religion that emerges from the necessities of community life." In Miyake's systematic methodological and theoretical approach, Shugendo is a classic example of Japanese folk religion, for it blends many traditions (shamanism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Shinto) into a distinctive Japanese religious worldview and is typical of Japanese religion generally."--BOOK JACKET.