Breen / Teeuwen A New History of Shinto

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5768-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion

This accessible guide to the development of Japan'sindigenous religion from ancient times to the present day offers anilluminating introduction to the myths, sites and rituals of kamiworship, and their role in Shinto's enduring religiousidentity.
* Offers a unique new approach to Shinto history that combinescritical analysis with original research
* Examines key evolutionary moments in the long history ofShinto, including the Meiji Revolution of 1868, and provides thefirst critical history in English or Japanese of the Hieshrine, one of the most important in all Japan
* Traces the development of various shrines, myths, and ritualsthrough history as uniquely diverse phenomena, exploring how andwhen they merged into the modern notion of Shinto that exists inJapan today
* Challenges the historic stereotype of Shinto as the unchanging,all-defining core of Japanese culture

Autoren/Hrsg.

Breen, John

Teeuwen, Mark

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations vi
Conventions and Abbreviations Used in the Text vii
Prologue ix
1 An Alternative Approach to the History of Shinto 1
2 Kami Shrines, Myths, and Rituals in Premodern Times 24
3 The History of a Shrine: Hie 66
4 The History of a Myth: The Sun-Goddess and the Rock-Cave129
5 The Daijo-sai: A "Shinto" Rite of Imperial Accession168
6 Issues in Contemporary Shinto 199
Conclusion 221
Notes 229
References 242
Index 253

Über Autor(innen)

John Breen is Reader in Japanese at SOAS (University ofLondon) and Associate Professor at the International ResearchCentre for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, where he edits thejournal Japan Review. His publications include Yasukuni,the War Dead and the Struggle for Japan's Past (edited,2008), Inoue Nobutaka, Shinto: A Short History(translated and adapted with Mark Teeuwen, 2002), Shinto inHistory: Ways of the Kami (edited with Mark Teeuwen, 2000), andJapan and Christianity: Impacts and Responses, (edited withMark Williams, 1996).
Mark Teeuwen is Professor of Japanese Studies at theUniversity of Oslo. As well as the books authored and edited withJohn Breen, he is co-editor of Buddhas and Kami in Japan: HonjiSuijaku as a Combinatory Paradigm (with Fabio Rambelli, 2003)and The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion (withBernhard Scheid, 2006).