Shinto Products

Edited by Mark W. MacWilliams, Okuyama Michiaki

This book provides key official documents alongside political, religious-philosophical, and historical essays, illustrating how the term "Shinto" has metamorphosed terminologically from Japan’s emergence as a modern nation state in the late 19th century to the postmodern Japan of today. "Shinto"…

Paperback – 2019-10-16
Routledge
Critical Categories in the Study of Religion

By Patrick S. Bresnan

Awakening: An Introduction to the History of Eastern Thought engages students with lively anecdotes, essential primary and secondary sources, an accessible writing style, and a clear historical approach. The text focuses primarily on India, China, and Japan, while showing the relationships that…

Paperback – 2017-09-05
Routledge

By Ugo Dessì

This book analyzes the variety of ways through which Japanese religions (Buddhism, Shintō, and new religious movements) contribute to the dynamics of accelerated globalization in recent decades. It looks at how Japanese religions provide material to cultural global flows, thus acting as carriers of…

Paperback – 2015-08-21
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy