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Richard Bowring describes in outline the development of Japanese religious thought and practice from the introduction of writing to the point at which medieval attitudes gave way to a distinctive pre-modern culture, a change that brought an end to the dominance of religious institutions. A wide range of approaches using the resources of art, history, social and intellectual history, as well as doctrine is brought to bear on the subject. The result is as full a picture as possible of the richness of the Japanese tradition as it succeeded in holding together on the one hand Buddhism, with its sophisticated intellectual structures, and on the other hand the disparate local cults that eventually achieved a kind of unity under the rubric of Shint

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Other non-Christian religions

• Full title: Religious Traditions of Japan 500-1600
• Author: Richard Bowring
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 502
• EAN: 9780521851190
• ISBN: 052185119X
• ID: 02047044
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 922 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 153 × 36 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. September 2005

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