Robert Ellwood (USA University of Southern California)

Introducing Japanese Religion

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Now in its Second Edition, Introducing Japanese Religion is the ideal resource for undergraduate students. This edition features new material on folk and popular religion, including shamanism, festivals, and practices surrounding death and funerals. Robert Ellwood also updates the text to discuss recent events, such as religious responses to the Fukushima disaster. Introducing Japanese Religion includes illustrations, lively quotations from original sources, learning goals, summary boxes, questions for discussion, suggestions for further reading, and a glossary to aid study and revision.

Produktdetails

• World Religions
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781138958760
• ISBN-10: 113895876X
• Artikelnr.: 43340562

Autorenporträt

Robert Ellwood is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Religion at the University of Southern California. He is the author of over twenty-five books, including Many Peoples, Many Faiths, The Fifties Spiritual Marketplace, The Sixties Spiritual Awakening, and Islands of the Dawn.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Encountering the Japanese religious world 2. The past in the present:
vignettes of Japanese spiritual life 3. The way of the kami: Shinto then
and now. Interlude: introduction to Buddhism 5. Magic mountains and the old
court: Heian Buddhism and its culture 6. Warrior culture, simple faith: the
Kamakura Buddhist reformation 7. Swords and satori: Zen and its culture 8.
Christ and Confucius: the West arrives, and then Japan turns inward 9. The
rising sun and the dark valley: from the Meiji Restoration until 1945 10.
Chanting and dancing: Shugendo and the "new religions" of Japan 11.
Pilgrimages: religion in Japan 1945 to the present