On Understanding Japanese Religion

by Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa

Book Overview

Joseph Kitagawa, one of the founders of the field of history of religions and an eminent scholar of the religions of Japan, published his classic book Religion in Japanese History in 1966. Since then, he has written a number of extremely influential essays that illustrate approaches to the study of Japanese religious phenomena. To date, these essays have remained scattered in various scholarly journals. This book makes available nineteen of these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691102295
• ISBN13: 9780691102290
• Release Date: October 1987
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 367 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"