Tama in Japanese myth : a hermeneutical study of ancient Japanese divinity

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Tama in Japanese myth : a hermeneutical study of ancient Japanese divinity

Tomoko Iwasawa

University Press of America, c2011

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Includes bibliographical references

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Tama in Japanese Myth attempts to elucidate Japanese religious experiences by presenting a new interpretation of the oldest existing text of Japanese myth, the Kojiki. Informed by phenomenological hermeneutics, Iwasawa shows that the concept of tama lies at the core of Japanese religious experiences. Tama is often compared to spirit and soul in Western philosophy and religion and especially to the German concept of Geist. Tama develops in ways that do not assume a dichotomy between the ideational and the sensible, which is precisely the dichotomy informing Western theism and the Platonic tradition of metaphysics. Iwasawa argues that the Western concept of God, far from explaining all possible connections between the human and the divine, is less than satisfactory for analyzing Japanese religious experiences. Iwasawa proceeds by examining the Japanese notion of tama as an inquiry into the origin of values wholly unaffected by the Western idea of a moral God.

目次

Acknowledgments Introduction PART I TAMA IN JAPANESE MYTH - HISTORICAL INVESTIGATIONS Chapter 1 In Pursuit of Tama in the Japanese Language: Motoori Norinaga's Interpretation of Tama Chapter 2 In Search of the Salvation of Embodied Tama: Hirata Atsutane's Interpretation of Tama Chapter 3 The Dialectic of Mythologizing, Demythologizing, and Remythologizing PART II TAMA IN JAPANESE MYTH - CONCRETE MANIFESTATIONS Part II Introduction Chapter 4 The Problem of Defilement: The Myth of Izanagi and Izanami Chapter 5 The Problem of Sin: The Myth of Amaterasu and Susanowo Conclusion Bibliography Index

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB07135585
  • ISBN
    • 9780761855248
    • 9780761855187
  • LCCN
    2011924844
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Lanham, Md.
  • ページ数/冊数
    xii, 162 p
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
  • 分類
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