Shinto - Simple Guides
$23.35
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
8 February 2009
Summary
This book will help you to:
- Appreciate the significance of Japan’s own religion in everyday life.
- To become familiar with the key traditions and festivals (matsuri) of the Shinto year.
- To understand what you will see at Shinto shrines and in Shinto ritual.
- To gain insights into the controversies surrounding Shinto, politics, and nationalism.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857334333 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1857334337 |
| Author: | Ian Reader |
| Publisher: | Kuperard |
| Imprint: | Kuperard |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 8 February 2009 |
| Weight: | 150g |
| Dimensions: | 170mm x 110mm |
| Series: | Simple Guides |
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About The Author
Ian Reader
Ian Reader has been teaching and researching the religions of Japan for many years. His PhD on Japanese Buddhism was gained at the University of Leeds in 1983, after which he and his wife Dorothy lived and worked in Japan for almost six years. Since 1989 he has been a member of the Scottish Centre for Japanese Studies at the University of Stirling, Scotland. He also spent a year as a Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii in 1992-93. For three years from August 1995 he lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies. Amongst his books are Religion in Contemporary Japan, Pilgrimage in Popular Culture, and A Poisonous Cocktail? Aum Shinrikyo’s Path to Violence.
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