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Japanese Religions at Home and Abroad : Anthropological Perspectives.
In this important book, a leading authority on Japanese religions brings together for the first time in English his extensive work on the subject. The book is important both for what it reveals about Japanese religions, and also because it demonstrates for western readers the distinctive Japanese ap...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Japanese Religions at Home and Abroad Anthropological perspectives; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I At home; 1 A consumer's perspective of religious habitat segregation in Japan; 2 Dialectics of Japanese religious thought and organization; 3 Modern Japanese religions from the perspective of "civilization studies"; 4 The "symbol analysis" of a Shinto festival; 5 "Continuity and change" in Japanese funeral customs; 6 Metaphors of initiation and pilgrimage in Japan; Part II Abroad.
- 7 Ecological and immunological aspects of Japanese Buddhism in the Americas8 "Ethnic identity" and Japanese Christian churches in the USA; 9 The "life history" of a Buddhist leader in Brazil; 10 Perfect Liberty, Kyddan as a multinational enterprise: the case of Brazil; Notes; Bibliography; Index.