Japan's Religious Ferment
Author | : Raymond J. Hammer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Christianity and other religions |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Raymond J. Hammer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Christianity and other religions |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Raymond J. Hammer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Christianity and other religions |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Masaharu Anesaki |
Publisher | : Tuttle Publishing |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2012-12-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1462909787 |
Masaharu Anesaki's History of Japanese Religion continues to be a much-cited pillar of Japanese studies and is now available in digital format. The original draft of the present book was an outcome of the author's lectures at Harvard University during the years 1913-15, when he had the honor of occupying there the chair of Japanese Literature and Life. In response to the encouragement given by several friends at Harvard, the author tried to put the material of the lectures into book form and redrafted it from time to time. The history of Japanese religions and morals shows the interaction of various forces which manifested their vitality more in combination than in opposition. A saying ascribed to Prince Shotoku, the founder of Japanese civilization, compares the three religious and moral systems found in Japan to the root, the stem and branches, and the flowers and the fruits of a tree. Shinto is the root embedded in the soil of the people's character and national traditions; Confucianism is seen in the stem and branches of legal institutions, ethical codes and educational systems; Buddhism made the flowers of religious sentiment bloom and gave the fruits of spiritual life.
Author | : Raymond Hammer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Christianity and other religions |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Hitoshi Miyake |
Publisher | : U of M Center for Japanese Studies |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Miyake defines folk religion as "religion that emerges from the necessities of community life." In Miyake's systematic methodological and theoretical approach, Shugendo is a classic example of Japanese folk religion, for it blends many traditions (shamanism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Shinto) into a distinctive Japanese religious worldview and is typical of Japanese religion generally."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Robert James Miller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Paul L. Swanson |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2005-10-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780824830021 |
For updates online, visit the Nanzan Guide site at Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture. The Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions combines, for the first time in any language, state-of-the-field theoretical and critical discussions with concrete resources students and scholars need to conduct research on Japanese religions. Even seasoned scholars typically approach their research in an unsystematic manner, becoming familiar with a particular area of inquiry while remaining largely unaware of what exists in the rest of the field. This inefficient method hinders particularly less-experienced researchers and circumscribes their lines of inquiry. The Nanzan Guide provides both beginners and specialists with a reference that will serve as a basic introduction to Japanese religions and allow them to conduct research more proficiently and in greater depth. Overlapping and thought-provoking chapters, written by leading specialists, offer a variety of perspectives on the complicated and multifaceted field of Japanese religions. The essays are divided into four sections: religious traditions (Japanese religions in general, Shinto, Buddhism, folk religion, new religions, Christianity); the history of Japanese religions (ancient, classical, medieval, early modern, modern, contemporary); major themes (symbolism, ritual and the arts, literature and scripture, state and religion, geography and environment, intellectual history, gender); and "practical" essays (finding references and using libraries, working with archive collections, conducting fieldwork). A chronology of religion in Japanese history is also provided.
Author | : Christal Whelan |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1996-09-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780824818241 |
In 1865 a French priest was visited by a small group of Japanese at his newly built church in Nagasaki. They were descendants of Japan's first Christians, the survivors of brutal religious persecution under the Tokugawa government. The Kakure Kirishitan, or "hidden Christians," had practiced their religion in secret for several hundred years. Sometime after their visit the priest received a copy of the Kakure bible, the Tenchi Hajimari no Koto, "Beginning of Heaven and Earth," an intriguing amalgam of Bible stories, Japanese fables, and Roman Catholic doctrine. Whelan offers a complete translation of this unique work accompanied by an illuminating commentary that provides the first theory of origin and evolution of the Tenchi. Today, the few Kakure Kirishitan communities still in existence view the Tenchi as strange and flawed, expressing a distorted form of Christianity. It is, however, the only text produced by the Kakure Kirishitan that depicts their highly syncretistic tradition and provides a colorful window through which to examine the dynamics of religious acculturation.