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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818640503321

Autore

Nakamaki Hirochika <1947, >

Titolo

Japanese religions at home and abroad : anthropological perspectives / / Hirochika Nakamaki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-136-13026-8

1-283-71009-9

0-203-03749-9

1-136-13018-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Classificazione

11.87

Disciplina

200/.89/956

Soggetti

Japanese Americans - Religion

Japanese - Brazil - Religion

Japan Religious life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [204]-210) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. At home -- pt. 2. Abroad.

Sommario/riassunto

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 approaches to the study of the subject and the different Japanese intellectual traditions which inform it. The book includes historical, cultural, regional and social approaches, and explains historical changes and regional differences. It goes on to provide cultural and symbolic analyses of festivals