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Women of the Sacred Groves
Oxford University Press 1999; US$ 49.99This 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 Monotheism
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 40.95Laurel Schneider takes the reader on a vivid journey from the origins of "the logic of the One" - only recently dubbed monotheism - through to the modern day, where monotheism has increasingly failed to adequately address spiritual, scientific, and ethical experiences in the changing world. In Part I, Schneider traces a trajectory from the ancient... more...
The Monotheists: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Conflict and Competition, Volume I
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 30.95The 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... more...
The Monotheists: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Conflict and Competition, Volume II
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 35.00The 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... more...
Tokugawa Religion
Free Press 2008; US$ 18.95A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. more...
Historical Dictionary of Shinto
Scarecrow Press 2010; US$ 84.99This expanded second edition of Historical Dictionary of Shinto relates the history of Shinto through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 800 cross-referenced dictionary entries on Shinto concepts, significant figures, places, activities, and periods. more...
From Gods to God
Mohr Siebeck 2009; US$ 122.94Hauptbeschreibung The birth of the West stems from the rejection of tradition. All our evidence for this influence comes from the Axial period, 800-400 BCE. Baruch Halpern explores the impact of changing cosmologies and social relations on cultural change in that era, especially from Mesopotamia to Israel and Greece, but extending across the Mediterranean,... more...
Religion and Politics in Contemporary Japan
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 145.00Presenting a study of politics at grassroots level among young Japanese, this book examines the alliance between the religious movement Soka Gakkai (the ?Value-creation Society?) and Komeito (the ?Clean Government Party?), which shared power with the Liberal Democratic Party from 1999 to 2009. Drawing on primary research carried out among Komeito... more...
National Faith Of Japan
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 250.00This classic work, long out of print, was the first detailed study of modern Shinto, the religion of Japan, in both its state and sect forms, and is of particular interest for its account of the evolution of Shinto into a vital political force in the period leading up to World War II. After describing the early and medieval forms of Shinto, Holtom... more...









