Exploring Shinto

Author(s)

• Pye, Michael

Bibliographic Information

Exploring Shinto

edited by Michael Pye

Equinox Publishing, 2020

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Shinto permeates the religious landscape of Japan and is a major key to the understanding of Japanese culture and society. But what is it? If ideological shortcuts are avoided there is no simple answer. Yet this book will guide students and general readers through many aspects of Shinto both today and in its history. It contains much information about sacred Shinto shrines and the divinities (the kami) which are the focus of devotion there. These numerous divinities have been viewed in different ways in the course of time, and contributions by specialists shed much light on the role played by Buddhism in this regard. Moreover, several fascinating religious movements or "sects" which share in the wider pattern of Shinto are also introduced and discussed. Oversimplified views may be challenged here, but the result is a volume in which "Shinto" is explored in a wide and illuminating perspective by an international team of scholars. It provides a refreshing and much-needed resource for all who are interested in the subject.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements Michael Pye 1 Concepts and Viewpoints 1. What is Shinto? Michael Pye 2. Essentialism in Early Shinto Studies Gaetan Rappo, Nagoya University 3. On Writing the History of "Shinto" Mark Teeuwen, University of Oslo 2 Exploring Borderlands of Shinto 4.Tendai Buddhist Views of Kami Yeonjoo Park, Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture 5. Conceptions of Kami in the Writings of the Tendai Monk Jien Vladlena Fedianina, Moscow City University 6. Buddhist-Shinto Syncretization at the Medieval Suwa Shrine Iwasawa Tomoko, Reitaku University 7. Underground Buddhism at the Ise Shrines Max D. Moerman, Columbia University 8. Shinto Spaces and Shinbutsu Interaction in the Noh Dunja Jelesijevic, Northern Arizona University 9. Buddhist-style Pilgrimage with "Shinto" Meanings Michael Pye 10. Why does Shin Buddhism Reject the Worship of the Kami? Robert Rhodes, Otani University 11. Multiple Divinities in Japanese Buddhist Temples Marcus Ruesch, Ryukoku University 12. Responsive Reflections on Buddhism and Shinto KatjaTriplett, University of Leipzig 3 The Puzzle and Fascination of Sect Shinto 13. Sect Shinto and the Case of Ooyashirokyo Michael Pye 14. Meiji Government Policy, Sect Shinto and Fusokyo Shishino Fumio, Shinto Priest and current Kancho of Fusokyo 15. Introducing the Faith of Shinshukyo Yoshimura Masanori, Chief priest of Sakura Shrine and Kyoshu of Shinshukyo 16. Tenrikyo and Omoto in the Context of Kyoha Shinto Avery Morrow, Brown University A Postscript on Shinto Diversity Michael Pye

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Details

• NCID: BC01868911
• ISBN:
  • 9781781799604
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Sheffield
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 327 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 299.561
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Shinto