Records of Customs and Land of Izumo
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Shōzō Kōno
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Published: 1941
Total Pages: 55
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George J. Tanabe Jr.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-06-30
Total Pages: 583
ISBN-13: 0691214743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis anthology reflects a range of Japanese religions in their complex, sometimes conflicting, diversity. In the tradition of the Princeton Readings in Religions series, the collection presents documents (legends and miracle tales, hagiographies, ritual prayers and ceremonies, sermons, reform treatises, doctrinal tracts, historical and ethnographic writings), most of which have been translated for the first time here, that serve to illuminate the mosaic of Japanese religions in practice. George Tanabe provides a lucid introduction to the "patterned confusion" of Japan's religious practices. He has ordered the anthology's forty-five readings under the categories of "Ethical Practices," "Ritual Practices," and "Institutional Practices," moving beyond the traditional classifications of chronology, religious traditions (Shinto, Confucianism, Buddhism, etc.), and sects, and illuminating the actual orientation of people who engage in religious practices. Within the anthology's three broad categories, subdivisions address the topics of social values, clerical and lay precepts, gods, spirits, rituals of realization, faith, court and emperor, sectarian founders, wizards, and heroes, orthopraxis and orthodoxy, and special places. Dating from the eighth through the twentieth centuries, the documents are revealed to be open to various and evolving interpretations, their meanings dependent not only on how they are placed in context but also on how individual researchers read them. Each text is preceded by an introductory explanation of the text's essence, written by its translator. Instructors and students will find these explications useful starting points for their encounters with the varied worlds of practice within which the texts interact with readers and changing contexts. Religions of Japan in Practice is a compendium of relationships between great minds and ordinary people, abstruse theories and mundane acts, natural and supernatural powers, altruism and self-interest, disappointment and hope, quiescence and war. It is an indispensable sourcebook for scholars, students, and general readers seeking engagement with the fertile "ordered disorder" of religious practice in Japan.
Author: Michiko Yamaguchi Aoki
Publisher: Tokyo : Sophia University
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 196
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Weiss
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2022-01-13
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1350271195
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book discusses how ancient Japanese mythology was utilized during the colonial period to justify the annexation of Korea to Japan, with special focus on the god Susanoo. Described as an ambivalent figure and wanderer between the worlds, Susanoo served as a foil to set off the sun goddess, who played an important role in the modern construction of a Japanese national identity. Susanoo inhabited a sinister otherworld, which came to be associated with colonial Korea. Imperialist ideologues were able to build on these interpretations of the Susanoo myth to depict Korea as a dreary realm at the margin of the Japanese empire that made the imperial metropole shine all the more brightly. At the same time, Susanoo was identified as the ancestor of the Korean people. Thus, the colonial subjects were ideologically incorporated into the homogeneous Japanese family state. The book situates Susanoo in Japan's cultural memory and shows how the deity, while being repeatedly transformed in order to meet the religious and ideological needs of the day, continued to symbolize the margin of Japan.
Author: John Whitney Hall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 636
ISBN-13: 9780521223522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDefinitive history of Japan from prehistoric times to the end of the eighth century.
Author: Robert Miller Spaulding
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 150
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: G. Domenig
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-12-11
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9004686452
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Arcadio Schwade
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-11-27
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9004658262
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