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Shinto in history : ways of the kami

The essays in this volume cover a wide range of topics on Shinto and kami in history, including the profound formative influence of Taoism on Shinto in early Japan; the relationship between shrine cults and nature; and the role of shrine and temple ritual in the Japanese state of the Heian period.
Print Book, English, ©2000
University of Hawaiʻi Press, Honolulu, ©2000
History
xii, 368 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780824823627, 9780824823634, 9780700711703, 9780700711727, 0824823621, 082482363X, 0700711708, 0700711724
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Introduction: Shinto past and present / John Breen and Mark Teeuwen
Shinto and Taoism in early Japan / Tim Barrett
Shinto and the natural environment / Sonoda Minoru
The state cult of the Nara and early Heian periods / Nelly Naumann
The economics of ritual power / Allan Grapard
The kami in esoteric Buddhist thought and practice / Mark Teeuwen
Reading the Yuiitsu Shintō myōbō yōshū: a modern exegesis of an esoteric Shinto text / Bernard Scheid
The death of a shogun: deification in early modern Japan / W.J. Boot
Changing images of Shinto: Sanja takusen or the three oracles / Brian Bocking
Mapping the sacred body: Shinto versus popular beliefs at Mt. Iwaki in Tsugaru / Nicola Liscutin
Nativism as a social movement: Katagiri Harukazu and the Hongaku reisha / Anne Walthall
Ideologues, bureaucrats and priests: on 'Shinto' and 'Buddhism' in early Meiji Japan / John Breen
Shinto as a 'non-religion': the origins and development of an idea / Nitta Hitoshi
The structure of state Shinto: its creation, development and demise / Sakamoto Koremaru
The disfiguring of nativism: Hirata Atsutane and Orikuchi Shinobu / Kamata Tōji
Tanaka Yoshitō and the beginnings of Shintōgaku / Isomae Junʼichi