Shinto – A History 1st Edition by Helen Hardacre 0190621737 9780190621735

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• ISBN 10: 0190621737
• ISBN 13: 9780190621735
• Author: Helen

Distinguished scholar of Japanese religions and culture Helen Hardacre offers the first comprehensive history of Shinto, the ancient and vibrant tradition whose colorful rituals are still practiced today. Under the ideal of Shinto, a divinely descended emperor governs through rituals offered to deities called Kami. These rituals are practiced in innumerable shrines across the realm, so that local rites mirror the monarch’s ceremonies. Through this theatre of state, it is thought, the human, natural, and supernatural worlds will align in harmony and prosper. Often called “the indigenous religion of Japan,” Shinto’s institutions, rituals, and symbols are omnipresent throughout the island nation. But, perhaps surprisingly, both its religiosity and its Japanese origins have been questioned.

Table of contents:

1. Shinto in the Ancient Period

2. The Kami in Myth

3. The Coalescence of Early Shinto

4. Shinto during the Middle and Late Heian Period, Tenth through Twelfth Centuries

5. The Esotericization of Medieval Shinto

6. Medieval Shinto and the Arts

7. The Late Medieval Period

8. Early Edo-Period Shinto Thought and Institutions

9. Edo-Period Shrine Life and Shrine Pilgrimage

10. Shinto and Revelation

11. Shinto and Kokugaku

12. Shinto and the Meiji State

13. Shinto and Imperial Japan

14. Shinto from 1945 through 1989

15. Shrine Festivals and Their Changing Place in the Public Sphere

16. Heisei Shinto

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