Japanese religion : a cultural perspective / Robert Ellwood, University of Southern California, Richard Pilgrim, Syracuse University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellwood, Robert, author.

Pilgrim, Richard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japan--Religion.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (175 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

This book provides an overview of religion in Japan, from ancient times to the present. It also emphasizes the cultural and attitudinal manifestations of religion in Japan, withough neglecting dates and places.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Part 1 A Panorama of Japanese Religion; 1 Introduction; The Japanese Way; 2 Moments and Memories: An Imaginary Tour; Tokyo; Kamakura; Kyoto/Nara; 3 Japanese Religion in Historical Perspective; The Story of Japanese Religion; Archaic Japanese Religion; The Coming of Buddhism; The Nara Period (710-794); The Heian Period (794-1185); The Kamakura Period (1185-1333); The Muromachi Period (1336-1573); The Tokugawa Period (1600-1868); The Meiji Period (1968-1912) and Beyond; Modern Japan; Scenes from the Past

The Coming of BuddhismThe Tendai Umbrella; Princess and Priestess in Pilgrimage and Sacred Place; Later Pilgrims to the Grand Shrine; Exemplary Persons; Shinran Shonin (1173-1262); Motoori Norinaga (1730-1801); 4 Countercultures; Outside the Mainstream; Exemplary Movements; The Caterpillar Cult; Nichiren and Nichiren Buddhism; Nakayama Miki and Tenrikyo; Part 2 Specific Patterns in the Religion of Japan; 5 Religion and the Arts; Foundations; Art in the Service of Religion; Religion in the Service of Art; 6 Conceptual Worlds; Introduction; Descriptive Realities and Worldviews

Vertical Worlds and ParadigmsHorizontal Worlds and Paradigms; Poetic Realities; Shinto; Buddhism; 7 Ritual and the Practice of Religion; The Performance of Religion; Exemplary Models of Japanese Ritual; Shinto; Zen Meditation; Nichiren Buddhist Practice; Yamabushi Rites; 8 Religion and Society; Religion in Sociological Perspective; Exemplary Patierns in Religious Community; Shinto Court Rituals as Socio-Religious Patterns; The Zen Monastery as a Community of Buddhist Practice; Soka Gakkai and the Importance of Community; 9 japan in change and continuity; Religion in an Ever-Changing World

Central Paradigms and Persistent PatiernsAppendix: Brief Summaries of Major Japanese Religious Traditions; Shinto; Confucianism; Taoism; Buddhism; The New Religions; Tenrikyo; Konkokyo; Ornoto; World Messianity or Sekai Kyusei-kyo; PL Kyodan; Seicho no le; Soka Gakkai; Rissho Koseikai; Reiyukai; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

"First published 1992 by Pearson Education, Inc."--Title-page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 30, 2016).

ISBN:

1-315-50711-0

1-315-50713-7

1-315-50712-9

9781315507132

OCLC:

958561033