Religion in Japanese Culture Where Living Traditions Meet a Changing World

Name: Religion in Japanese Culture Where Living Traditions Meet a Changing World
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ISBN: 9784770020543

ISBN-10: 4770020546

ISBN-13: 9784770020543

Edition: 1996

Authors: Noriyoshi Tamaru, David Reid, Shigeru Matsumoto

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Over two decades ago, the Agency for Cultural Affairs compiled a volume entitled Japanese Religion: A Survey. Now in its eleventh printing, its value as a source of information on religion in Japanese society has been amply proved. But in the years since then Japan has rocketed to economic dominance, and urbanization and industrialization have altered the cultural landscape. The picturesque serenity of Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines is a nostalgic vision; the shocking crimes of Aum Shinrikyo a new reality. Religion in Japanese Culture is a response to the relentless change of the last twenty-five years. Retaining but revising the earlier volume's comprehensive survey of Japan's major…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Kodansha America, Incorporated
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Contributors and Translators	p. 7
Preface	p. 9
Introduction	p. 13
Shinto	p. 27
Buddhism	p. 43
Christianity	p. 63
Folk Religion	p. 79
New Religions	p. 97
Religion and State	p. 115
Religion and Education	p. 137
Urbanization, Depopulation, and Religion	p. 156
Aspects of the Rebirth of Religion	p. 171
Internationalization in Japanese Religion	p. 184
Religions Organizations in Japanese Law	p. 199
Aum Shinrikyo	p. 209
Statistics	p. 217
Chronology	p. 224
Index	p. 229
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