On Understanding Japanese Religion (eBook)

Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa (Autor)

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2021
375 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22423-7 (ISBN)

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.2.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Schlagworte: Aesthetic Experience • Ainu controversy • Altaic culture • Amaterasu • Asceticism • Ashikaga era • Avalokiteśvara • Baekje • Bodhisattva • Buddhahood • Buddha image • Buddhism • Buddhism in Japan • Buddhist Studies • buddhist temple • buddhist texts • Buddhology • ceremonial center • Chan Buddhism • charismatic figures • Chinese Buddhism • Chinese Culture • Chinese script • Christianity • Clergy • commentarial traditions • Confucianism • copying scriptures • culture and society • culture of Japan • deity • Dharma • Divination • Doctrine • Dreams • edict • Edict Concerning Shinto • Edo Period • Eisai • Emperor Jimmu • Empress Suiko • Eschatology • esoteric Buddhism • feudal regime • folk religion • freedom of religion • Fudoki • Fujiwara family • Fujiwara regency • Gautama Buddha • Grand Shrine of Ise • Guanyin • Gyōgi • Hachiman • Haibutsu kishaku • Han Confucianism • healing cults • Heian Buddhism • Heian period • hierophany • Hirata Atsutane • Hitachi fudoki • Ideology • Imibe • immanental theocracy • Imperial House of Japan • imperial insignias • initiation rites • Izumo • japanese archipelago • Japanese language • Japanese mythology • japanese people • Japanese Religion • Japanology • Jōmon culture • Kamo Mabuchi • Kirishitan • Kofun • Kofun period • Kogoshūi • Kojiki • Korean Peninsula • Kūkai • Kyushu • Laity • Literature • Maitreya • mandate of heaven • Missionaries • Missionary • Monarchy • Monasticism • mythical time • mythologization of history • Nakatomi family • Nara period • national exclusion • Neo-Confucianism • New Religions • New Religious Movement • Nichiren • nihongi • nihon shoki • Ōkuninushi • Oral tradition • Philosophy • pietism • piety • Pilgrimage • Prerogative • Purification • Regency • Religion • Religion in Japan • religious experience • Religious Studies • religious text • Rite • Sacred king • Sacred Mountains • Sangha • Sanskrit • Schools of Buddhism • sect • Seventeen-article constitution • Shingon Buddhism • Shinran • Shinto • shinto shrine • Society of Jesus • Solar deity • State Religion • State Shinto • Taoism • tendai • theocracy • The Other Hand • Theravada • tokugawa shogunate • Vinaya • Western Culture • Western World • World View • World War II • Writing • yamatai • Yasukuni shrine • Yayoi period • Yin and Yang
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22423-4 / 0691224234
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22423-7 / 9780691224237