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Kami No Michi
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Author : Hope Huntly
language : en
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Release Date : 2014-03
Kami No Michi written by Hope Huntly and has been published by Literary Licensing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03 with categories.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1910 Edition.
Kami No Michi The Way Of The Kami
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Author : Yukitaka Yamamoto
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Kami No Michi The Way Of The Kami written by Yukitaka Yamamoto and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Shinto categories.
Kami No Michi
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Author : Hope Huntly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1910
Kami No Michi written by Hope Huntly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1910 with Japan categories.
Women Of The Sacred Groves
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Author : Susan Sered
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1999-03-04
Women Of The Sacred Groves written by Susan Sered and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03-04 with Religion categories.
Okinawa is the only contemporary society in which women lead the official, mainstream, publicly funded religion. Priestesses are the acknowledged religious leaders within the home, clan, and village--and, until annexation by Japan approximately one hundred years ago, within the Ryukyuan Kingdom. This fieldwork-based study provides a gender-sensitive look at a remarkable religious tradition. Susan Sered spent a year living in Henza, an Okinawan fishing village, joining priestesses as they conducted rituals in the sacred groves located deep in the jungle-covered mountains surrounding the village. Her observations focus upon the meaning of being a priestess and the interplay between women's religious preeminence and other aspects of the society. Sered shows that the villages social ethos is characterized by easy-going interpersonal relations, an absence of firm rules and hierarchies, and a belief that the village and its inhabitants are naturally healthy. Particularly interesting is her discovery that gender is a minimal category here: villagers do not adapt any sort of ideology that proclaims that men and women are inherently different from one another. Villagers do explain that because farmland is scarce in Okinawa, men have been compelled to go to the dangerous ocean and to foreign countries to seek their livelihoods. Women, in contrast, have remained present in their healthy and pleasant village, working on their farms and engaging in constant rounds of intra- and interfamilial socializing. Priestesses, who do not exert power in the sense that religious leaders in many other societies do, can be seen as the epitome of presence. By praying and eating at myriad rituals, priestesses make immediate and tangible the benevolent presence of kami-sama (divinity). Through in-depth examination of this unique and little-studied society, Sered offers a glimpse of a religious paradigm radically different from the male-dominated religious ideologies found in many other cultures.
Kami No Michi
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Author : Giancarla Sandri Fioroni
language : it
Publisher: Zephyro Edizioni
Release Date : 2011
Kami No Michi written by Giancarla Sandri Fioroni and has been published by Zephyro Edizioni this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Religion categories.
The Religions Of Japan
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Author : William Elliot Griffis
language : en
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Release Date : 1895
The Religions Of Japan written by William Elliot Griffis and has been published by IndyPublish.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with Religion categories.
The Religions Of Japan
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Author : William Elliot Griffis
language : en
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1912 [c1895]
Release Date : 1895
The Religions Of Japan written by William Elliot Griffis and has been published by New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1912 [c1895] this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with Japan categories.
Shinto Meditations For Revering The Earth
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Author : Stuart D. B. Picken
language : en
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
Release Date : 2002-04-01
Shinto Meditations For Revering The Earth written by Stuart D. B. Picken and has been published by Stone Bridge Press, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-01 with Religion categories.
Complementing Buddhism, Shinto is Japan's 2,000-year-old worship tradition that celebrates the relationship of humans to the natural world. This modern-day collection of Shinto-inspired devotions shows the reader how to commune directly with Great Nature for health, wisdom, and serenity. Structured litanies address mountains, waterfalls, rocks, trees, etc. Includes instructions for performing authentic "waterfall purification" and a section on experiencing Shinto in North America.
Shinto
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Author : Thomas P. Kasulis
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2004-08-31
Shinto written by Thomas P. Kasulis and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-31 with Religion categories.
Nine out of ten Japanese claim some affiliation with Shinto, but in the West the religion remains the least studied of the major Asian spiritual traditions. It is so interlaced with Japanese cultural values and practices that scholarly studies usually focus on only one of its dimensions: Shinto as a "nature religion," an "imperial state religion," a "primal religion," or a "folk amalgam of practices and beliefs." Thomas Kasulis’ fresh approach to Shinto explains with clarity and economy how these different aspects interrelate. As a philosopher of religion, he first analyzes the experiential aspect of Shinto spirituality underlying its various ideas and practices. Second, as a historian of Japanese thought, he sketches several major developments in Shinto doctrines and institutions from prehistory to the present, showing how its interactions with Buddhism, Confucianism, and nationalism influenced its expression in different times and contexts. In Shinto’s idiosyncratic history, Kasulis finds the explicit interplay between two forms of spirituality: the "existential" and the "essentialist." Although the dynamic between the two is particularly striking and accessible in the study of Shinto, he concludes that a similar dynamic may be found in the history of other religions as well. Two decades ago, Kasulis’ Zen Action/Zen Person brought an innovative understanding to the ideas and practices of Zen Buddhism, an understanding influential in the ensuing decades of philosophical Zen studies. Shinto: The Way Home promises to do the same for future Shinto studies.
Shinto
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Author : C. Scott Littleton
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2002
Shinto written by C. Scott Littleton and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Religion categories.
In Japan, two religions predominate--Buddhism and Shintoism--and the Japanese people see no contradiction in practicing both: worshipping Buddha even as they revere the kami, the divine beings that populate the country and define the indigenous faith of Shintoism. In Shintoism and the Religions of Japan, C. Scott Littleton illuminates this unusual spiritual pluralism and shows how it has fertilized a vast and varied religious landscape. Littleton describes the origins and development of Shinto (or Kami no Michi, "Way of the Gods"), the introduction of Buddhism a millennium and a half ago, the rise of various sects of Buddhism (some indigenous to Japan), and the role of the imperial court and the shogunate in the nation's religious life. Here too is a clear and succinct summary of Shintoism's teeming pantheon of spiritual figures, the holy writings of Shintoism, and the islands' landscape of holy sanctuaries. Littleton explains how Buddhism has been reinterpreted in light of Japan's indigenous traditions (some monumental statues of the Buddha are worshipped as manifestations of kami), and describes the "new religions" that flourished during the Meiji period of the late nineteenth century, after Japan once again opened up to the outside world. Writing with grace and clarity, he captures the essential features of Japanese religious life, including the countless local festivals and rituals, the importance of harmony and enlightenment, and concepts of death and salvation. Lavishly illustrated with some thirty color photographs, sprinkled with boxed features that focus on fascinating issues, this volume offers a marvelous tour of Japan's distinctive spiritual experience.