Religion in the Japanese Experience: Sources and Interpretations (Religious Life in History Series) - Softcover

 
9780534524616: Religion in the Japanese Experience: Sources and Interpretations (Religious Life in History Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0534524613 ISBN 13: 9780534524616
Verlag: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

The author's intention in compiling this anthology is to help the reader see Japanese religion more concretely, as it is found within the history of the tradition and experience of the people. The overall purpose of the selections, which represent various historical periods and schools of thought, is to show what religion means in the Japanese experience.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

H. Byron Earhart studied under Mircea Eliade and Joseph M. Kitagawa at the University of Chicago, where he received a doctorate in History of Religions. He has conducted research in Japan for his dissertation on the mountain religion" of Shugendo, and for work on folk religion and new religions. He is professor emeritus in the Department of Comparative Religion at Western Michigan University, which awarded him a Distinguished Faculty Scholar award for his numerous publications. A number of his works have been translated into Japanese. His most recent book is MOUNT FUJI: ICON OF JAPAN (University of South Carolina, 2011). His next book is a comparative study of amulets."

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Verlag
Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0534524613
ISBN 13 
9780534524616
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
312
Herausgeber
Earhart H. Byron
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