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Asceticism
Author_Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa
Bodhisattva
Buddhahood
Buddhism
Buddhism in Japan
Buddhist temple
Buddhist texts
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Chan Buddhism
Chinese Buddhism
Chinese culture
Christianity
Clergy
Confucianism
Deity
Doctrine
Edict
Emperor Jimmu
Empress Suiko
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Freedom of religion
Fudoki
Gautama Buddha
Guanyin
Heian period
Ideology
Japanese archipelago
Japanese language
Japanese people
Kirishitan
Kojiki
Kyushu
Laity
Literature
Maitreya
Missionary
Monarchy
Monasticism
Nara period
Neo-Confucianism
New religious movement
Nichiren
Nihon Shoki
Philosophy
Piety
Religion
Religion in Japan
Religious studies
Religious text
Rite
Sacred king
Sacred mountains
Sangha
Sanskrit
Schools of Buddhism
Shingon Buddhism
Shinran
Shinto
Shinto shrine
Society of Jesus
Solar deity
State Shinto
Taoism
Tendai
The Other Hand
Theocracy
Vinaya
Western culture
Western world
World War II
Writing
Yin and yang
Product details
- ISBN 9780691102290
- Weight: 539g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Oct 1987
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Joseph Kitagawa, one of the founders of the field of history of religions and an eminent scholar of the religions of Japan, published his classic book Religion in Japanese History in 1966. Since then, he has written a number of extremely influential essays that illustrate approaches to the study of Japanese religious phenomena. To date, these essays have remained scattered in various scholarly journals. This book makes available nineteen of these articles, important contributions to our understanding of Japan's intricate combination of indigenous Shinto, Confucianism, Taoism, the Yin-Yang School, Buddhism, and folk religion. In sections on prehistory, the historic development of Japanese religion, the Shinto tradition, the Buddhist tradition, and the modem phase of the Japanese religious tradition, the author develops a number of valuable methodological approaches. The volume also includes an appendix on Buddhism in America. Asserting that the study of Japanese religion is more than an umbrella term covering investigations of separate traditions, Professor Kitagawa approaches the subject from an interdisciplinary standpoint.
Skillfully combining political, cultural, and social history, he depicts a Japan that seems a microcosm of the religious experience of humankind.
Joseph M. Kitagawa is Professor Emeritus of the University of Chicago Divinity School and of the Department of Far Eastern Languages and Civilizations there: he is also a former Dean of the Divinity School.
