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Ceremony and Ritual in Japanby Jan Van Bremen; D. P. Martinez
Routledge 1994; US$ 195.00Focuses on traditional and religious aspects of Japanese society from an anthropological perspective, presenting new material and making cross-cultural comparisons. Topics include women's role in ritual, mourning and the playing of games. more...
Pantheismby Michael P. Levine
Routledge 1994; US$ 145.00In Pantheism the notion that everything is part of an all-inclusive divine unity is presented as a legitimate position, its philosophical basis is examined, and the implications of pantheism in terms of practice are considered. more...
Orientalism and Religionby Richard King
Routledge 1999; US$ 47.95Orientalism and Religion offers a timely discussion of the implications of contemporary post-colonial theory for the study of religion. It draws on post-structuralist and post-colonial thinkers to reflect on Religion and Indology. more...
Buddhas and Kami in Japanby Mark Teeuwen; Fabio Rambelli
RoutledgeCurzon 2002; US$ 195.00This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the combinatory tradition that dominated premodern and early modern Japanese religion, known as honji suijaku ( originals and their traces ). more...
Fox's Craft in Japanese Religion and Cultureby Michael Bathgate
Routledge 2004; US$ 133.00Focusing 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...
Catalpa Bowby Carmen Blacker
RoutledgeCurzon 1999; US$ 69.95This 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...
Pilgrimages and Spiritual Quests in Japanby Maria Rodriguez del Alisal; Peter Ackerman; Theodore C. Bestor
RoutledgeCurzon 2006; US$ 44.95This 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...
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$ 56.95A 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...
Handbook of Japanese Mythologyby Michael Ashkenazi
ABC-CLIO 2003; US$ 75.00This work views Japanese myths in their social, historical, and cultural context - how they emerged and how they reflect and influence Japanese life. It helps readers sort through the multiple names and spellings, as well as story variations, of Japan's most popular mythic figures. more...









