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Serbia - Culture Smart! : The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zmukic, Lara.
- Series:
- Culture Smart!
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Etiquette--Serbia.
- Local Subjects:
- Etiquette--Serbia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (148 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Culture Smart!
- Serbia - Culture Smart!
- Place of Publication:
- London : Kuperard, 2012.
- Summary:
- Serbia, a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, covers the southern part of the Pannonian plain and the central part of the Balkans.The dominant power in the former Yugoslavia, it has had a bad press in the West.However, the truth is much more nuanced and interesting than that portrayed by the media.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Front Flip
- Title Page
- Half Title
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Contents
- Map of Japan
- Preface
- Introduction
- Terms for Shinto Shrines
- Torii - the Shinto Gateway
- Meiji Jingu- Shrine
- New Year's Festival
- What Shinto Is Not!
- 1 Shinto and its Japanese Setting
- Absorbing External Influences
- Shinto: An Indigenous Religion?
- Shinto: A Modern Phenomenon?
- Early Japanese Religion and Entry of Buddhism
- Threat of New Gods and Triumph of Buddhism
- Development and Meaning of Word 'Shinto'
- Ideograms for Word 'Shinto'
- 2 Kami, Myths and Meanings
- Forms of Kami
- Relationship of Humans and Kami
- Some Important Kami in Shinto Tradition
- Shinto Foundation Myths
- Story of Izanagi and Izanami
- Heavenly Siblings: Story of Amaterasu and Susanoo
- Myths of Imperial Descent
- Basic Themes of Shinto
- Maintaining Life in This World
- Religious Practice and Purification
- 3 Shinto in Japanese Religious History
- Shinto-Buddhist Interactions
- Todaiji Temple
- Watarai Shinto
- Meiji Restoration and Shinto
- Post-War Era and Shinto Disestablishment
- Dynamics of Japanese Religious World
- 4 Shinto Shrines
- Types and Structures of Shrines
- Signs of the Sacred
- Shimenawa - Sacred Rope
- Shrine Buildings and Inner Sanctuaries
- Important Shrines and Locations
- October 'Meeting of Kami'
- Shrine Animals
- Shrine Officiants
- 5 Life-Cycles, Festivals and Rituals
- Yearly Cycle of Events
- Important Life-Cycle Rituals and Festivals
- Festivals: Matsuri
- Tanabata Festival, Sendai
- Shinto Rituals
- Praying to the Kami
- 6 Prayers and Communications with the Kami
- Turning to the Gods
- Sincerity and Gratitude
- Objects and their Meanings
- Ema
- Omamori and Fuda.
- Hamaya
- Symbolic Meanings
- Cyclicality
- 7 Shinto, Nationalism and Yasukuni Shrine
- Yasukuni Shrine
- Political Manoeuvres and Opposition
- 8 Shinto in the Modern World
- An Uneven Picture
- Rise and Challenge of New Religions
- An Unclear Future
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- Index
- Back Flip
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-78702-171-8
- 1-85733-655-0
- OCLC:
- 842881407
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