Shinto

Zusatztext Descriptions of Shinto's influence on art and culture in the medieval era and in popular culture today enrich the readers understanding of Shinto's importance in Japanese society. Although the book is immense! it is also immensely readable! even for non-specialists. Informationen zum Autor Helen Hardacre is Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society at Harvard University. Concentrating on Japanese religious history of the modern period, she has done extended field study of contemporary Shinto and Buddhist religious organizations, the religious life of Japan's Korean minority, and contemporary ritualization of abortion. She has also researched State Shinto and directs a research project on constitutional revisionin Japan. Klappentext Helen Hardacre offers for the first time in any language a sweeping, comprehensive history of Shinto, the tradition that is practiced by some 80% of the Japanese people and underlies the institution of the Emperor. Zusammenfassung Helen Hardacre offers for the first time in any language a sweeping, comprehensive history of Shinto, the tradition that is practiced by some 80% of the Japanese people and underlies the institution of the Emperor.

Autorentext
Helen Hardacre is Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society at Harvard University. Concentrating on Japanese religious history of the modern period, she has done extended field study of contemporary Shinto and Buddhist religious organizations, the religious life of Japan's Korean minority, and contemporary ritualization of abortion. She has also researched State Shinto and directs a research project on constitutional revision in Japan.

Klappentext
Helen Hardacre offers for the first time in any language a sweeping, comprehensive history of Shinto, the tradition that is practiced by some 80% of the Japanese people and underlies the institution of the Emperor.

Inhalt
Introduction
Chapter One: Shinto in the Ancient Period
Chapter Two: The Kami in Myth
Chapter Three: The Coalescence of Early Shinto
Chapter Four: Shinto During the Middle and Late Heian Period, Tenth Through Twelfth Centuries
Chapter Five: The Esotericization of Medieval Shinto
Chapter Six: Medieval Shinto and the Arts
Chapter Seven: The Late Medieval Period
Chapter Eight: Early Edo-Period Shinto Thought and Institutions
Chapter Nine: Edo Period Shrine Life and Shrine Pilgrimage
Chapter Ten: Shinto and Revelation
Chapter Eleven: Shinto and Kokugaku
Chapter Twelve: Shinto and the Meiji State
Chapter Thirteen: Shinto and Imperial Japan
Chapter Fourteen: Shinto From 1945 Through 1989
Chapter Fifteen: Shrine Festivals and their Changing Place in the Public Sphere
Chapter Sixteen: Heisei Shinto
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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