Exploring Shinto

by Pye

Book Overview

Shinto permeates the religious landscape of Japan and is a major key to the understanding of Japanese culture and society. But what is it?

If ideological shortcuts are avoided there is no simple answer. Yet this book will guide students and general readers through many aspects of Shinto both today and in its history. It contains much information about sacred Shinto shrines and the divinities (the kami) which are the focus of devotion there...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781799601
• ISBN13: 9781781799604
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"