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Fox's Craft in Japanese Religion and Cultureby Michael Bathgate
Routledge 2004; US$ 111.00Focusing on recurring themes of transformation and duplicity in folklore, theology, and court and village practice, The Fox's Craft explores the meanings and uses of shapeshifter fox imagery in Japanese history. more...
Pilgrimages and Spiritual Quests in Japanby Maria Rodriguez del Alisal; Peter Ackerman; Theodore C. Bestor
RoutledgeCurzon 2006; US$ 39.95This book examines pilgrimages in Japan, including the meanings of travel, transformation, and the discovery of identity through encounters with the sacred, in a variety of interesting dimensions in both historical and contemporary Japanese culture. more...
Catalpa Bowby Carmen Blacker
RoutledgeCurzon 1999; US$ 64.95This classic work describes shamanic figures surviving in Japan today, their initiatory dreams, ascetic practices, the supernatural beings with whom they communicate, and the geography of the other world in myth and legend. more...
In His own image and likenessby W.R. Garr
BRILL 2003; US$ 108.00This work is about nothing less than Genesis 1, or human creation. Humanity, the author argues, is created within the Priestly tradition as a replacement of God's divine community; human creation marks the decisive moment that God separates himself from other gods and institutes monotheism. more...
A Popular Dictionary Of Shintoby Brian Bocking
Taylor & Francis 1997; US$ 52.95A comprehensive glossary and reference work with more than a thousand entries on Shinto ranging from brief definitions and Japanese terms to short essays dealing with aspects of Shinto practice, belief and institutions from early times up to the present d more...
Women of the Sacred Grovesby Susan Sered
Oxford University Press 1999; US$ 50.00This text looks at the unique tradition of Okinawa, where women lead the official mainstream religion of the society. It explores the intersection between religion and gender. The author sees the absence of male dominance as part of a broader absence of hierarchical ideologies. more...
Beyond Monotheismby Laurel Schneider
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 36.95Beyond Monotheism is an absorbing and lyrical exploration of the possibility of a new, living theology of multiplicity that is grounded in fluidity, change and incarnation. more...
The Monotheists: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Conflict and Competition, Volume Iby F. E. Peters
Princeton University Press 2005; US$ 28.95The world's three great monotheistic religions have spent most of their historical careers in conflict or competition with each other. And yet in fact they sprung from the same spiritual roots and have been nurtured in the same historical soil. This book--an extraordinarily comprehensive and approachable comparative introduction to these religions--seeks not so much to demonstrate the truth of this thesis as to illustrate it. Frank Peters, one of the world's foremost experts on the monotheistic faiths, takes Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and after briefly tracing the roots of each, places them side by side to show both their similarities and their differences. Volume I, The Peoples of God , tells the story of the foundation and formation... more...
The Monotheists: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Conflict and Competition, Volume IIby F. E. Peters
Princeton University Press 2005; US$ 31.95The world's three great monotheistic religions have spent most of their historical careers in conflict or competition with each other. And yet in fact they sprung from the same spiritual roots and have been nurtured in the same historical soil. This book--an extraordinarily comprehensive and approachable comparative introduction to these religions--seeks not so much to demonstrate the truth of this thesis as to illustrate it. Frank Peters, one of the world's foremost experts on the monotheistic faiths, takes Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and after briefly tracing the roots of each, places them side by side to show both their similarities and their differences. Volume I, The Peoples of God , tells the story of the foundation and formation... more...