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
University Press of America, c2011
- : clothbound
- : pbk
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
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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