Assembling Shinto
Buddhist Approaches to Kami Worship in Medieval Japan
$86.95
- Hardcover
420 pages
- Release Date
10 April 2017
Summary
During the late twelfth to fourteenth centuries, several precursors of what is now commonly known as Shinto came together for the first time. By focusing on Mt. Miwa in present-day Nara Prefecture and examining the worship of indigenous deities (kami) that emerged in its proximity, this book serves as a case study of the key stages of “assemblage” through which this formative process took shape. Previously unknown rituals, texts, and icons featuring kami, all of which were invented …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780674970571 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0674970578 |
| Author: | Anna Andreeva |
| Publisher: | Harvard University, Asia Center |
| Imprint: | Harvard University, Asia Center |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 420 |
| Release Date: | 10 April 2017 |
| Weight: | 726g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Harvard East Asian Monographs |
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Anna Andreeva
Anna Andreeva is a Research Fellow at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context,” Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.
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