A Study of Shinto
A Study of Shinto

Author: Genchi Katu

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-10-18

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 1136903704

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This volume investigates and present the salient features of Shinto through a long history of development from its remote past up to the present. It is a historical study of Shinto from a scientific point of view, illustrating the higher aspects of the religion, compile on strict lines of religious comparison.

A Study of Shintō
A Study of Shintō

Author: Genchi Katō

Publisher:

Published: 1926

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13:

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This volume investigates and present the salient features of Shinto through a long history of development from its remote past up to the present. It is a historical study of Shinto from a scientific point of view, illustrating the higher aspects of the religion, compile on strict lines of religious comparison.

Founding Territorial Cults in Early Japan
Founding Territorial Cults in Early Japan

Author: G. Domenig

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-12-11

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9004686452

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The first book that deals with the territorial cults of early Japan by focusing on how such cults were founded in ownerless regions. Numerous ancient Japanese myths and legends are discussed to show that the typical founding ritual was a two-phase ritual that turned the territory into a horizontal microcosm, complete with its own ‘terrestrial heaven’ inhabited by local deities. Reversing Mircea Eliade’s popular thesis, the author concludes that the concept of the human-made horizontal microcosm is not a reflection but the source of the religious concept of the macrocosm with gods dwelling high up in the sky. The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Tsumi - Offence and Retribution in Early Japan
Tsumi - Offence and Retribution in Early Japan

Author: Yoko Williams

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-11

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1136874224

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Covering the period from before the emergence of the first political units through to the formation of the Japanese ritsuryo state in the 8th century, this book offers a ground-breaking scholarly diachronic analysis of tsumi (offence and retribution) from a politico-historical perspective. Taking as its starting point the native forms of tsumi in the realms of myth and prayer, the study traces their development through the periods of the formation of the state and the centralization of the governing structure, to the introduction of a written-law system of governing. Through detailed and logical analysis this study illuminates early Japanese political thought, written and unwritten law and the essentially political notion of tsumi.

A Collector's Guide to Books on Japan in English
A Collector's Guide to Books on Japan in English

Author: Jozef Rogala

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-10-12

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1136639233

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Provides an invaluable and very accessible addition to existing biographic sources and references, not least because of the supporting biographies of major writers and the historical and cultural notes provided.