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Shinto : the way home / Thomas P. Kasulis.

By: Series: Dimensions of Asian spiritualityPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (xx, 184 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780824864309 (electronic bk.)
  • 0824864301 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: ShintoDDC classification:
  • 299.5/61 22
LOC classification:
  • BL2220 .K38 2004eb
Other classification:
  • 73.55
Online resources:
Contents:
Entering through the torii -- Everyday connectedness -- Ancient Shinto (prehistory-794) : the trailblazers -- From Nara to Norinaga (794-1801) : the pathfinders -- All roads lead to Tokyo (1801-2002) : the highway engineers -- The way home.
Summary: Scholarly studies on Shinto usually focus only on one of its dimensions: Shinto as a 'nature religion', an 'imperial state religion', a 'primal religion', or a 'folk amalgam of practices and beliefs'. Thomas Kasulis explains how these different aspects interrelate.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-174) and index.

Entering through the torii -- Everyday connectedness -- Ancient Shinto (prehistory-794) : the trailblazers -- From Nara to Norinaga (794-1801) : the pathfinders -- All roads lead to Tokyo (1801-2002) : the highway engineers -- The way home.

Scholarly studies on Shinto usually focus only on one of its dimensions: Shinto as a 'nature religion', an 'imperial state religion', a 'primal religion', or a 'folk amalgam of practices and beliefs'. Thomas Kasulis explains how these different aspects interrelate.

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