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On Understanding Japanese Religion by Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa (1987, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPrinceton University Press
ISBN-100691102295
ISBN-139780691102290
eBay Product ID (ePID)290789
Product Key Features
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameOn Understanding Japanese Religion
SubjectBuddhism / General (See Also Philosophy / Buddhist), Eastern
Publication Year1987
FeaturesLimited Edition
TypeTextbook
AuthorJoseph Mitsuo Kitagawa
Subject AreaReligion
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight19 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN87-002795
Dewey Edition19
Dewey Decimal291.095
Edition DescriptionLimited
SynopsisJoseph Kitagawa, one of the founders of the field of history of religions and an eminent scholar of the religions of Japan, published his classic book Religion in Japanese History in 1966. Since then, he has written a number of extremely influential essays that illustrate approaches to the study of Japanese religious phenomena. To date, these essays have remained scattered in various scholarly journals. This book makes available nineteen of these articles, important contributions to our understanding of Japan's intricate combination of indigenous Shinto, Confucianism, Taoism, the Yin-Yang School, Buddhism, and folk religion. In sections on prehistory, the historic development of Japanese religion, the Shinto tradition, the Buddhist tradition, and the modem phase of the Japanese religious tradition, the author develops a number of valuable methodological approaches. The volume also includes an appendix on Buddhism in America. Asserting that the study of Japanese religion is more than an umbrella term covering investigations of separate traditions, Professor Kitagawa approaches the subject from an interdisciplinary standpoint. Skillfully combining political, cultural, and social history, he depicts a Japan that seems a microcosm of the religious experience of humankind., Joseph Kitagawa, one of the founders of the field of history of religions and an eminent scholar of the religions of Japan, published his classic book Religion in Japanese History in 1966. Since then, he has written a number of extremely influential essays that illustrate approaches to the study of Japanese religious phenomena. To date, these essay, Joseph Kitagawa, one of the founders of the field of history of religions and an eminent scholar of the religions of Japan, published his classic book Religion in Japanese History in 1966. Since then, he has written a number of extremely influential essays that illustrate approaches to the study of Japanese religious phenomena. To date, these essays have remained scattered in various scholarly journals. This book makes available nineteen of these articles, important contributions to our understanding of Japan's intricate combination of indigenous Shinto, Confucianism, Taoism, the Yin-Yang School, Buddhism, and folk religion. In sections on prehistory, the historic development of Japanese religion, the Shinto tradition, the Buddhist tradition, and the modem phase of the Japanese religious tradition, the author develops a number of valuable methodological approaches. The volume also includes an appendix on Buddhism in America.Asserting that the study of Japanese religion is more than an umbrella term covering investigations of separate traditions, Professor Kitagawa approaches the subject from an interdisciplinary standpoint.Skillfully combining political, cultural, and social history, he depicts a Japan that seems a microcosm of the religious experience of humankind.
LC Classification NumberBL2202.K49 1987
