The Opening Way: Kurozumi Munetada, Founder of Kurozumikyo

by Harold Bell Wright, Tadaaki Kurozumi, Kamiya Sumio, et al.

This biography of the founder of a Shinto denomination gives a close-up view of Japanese religion in action. The term 'Shinto' acquires an entirely fresh meaning for many readers, showing from inside perspective how faith and aspiration guide people amid the conditions of ordinary life. The subject is the relation between the ordinary human and the transcendent power that animates the universe as that relation is understood in Shinto perspective...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819195758
• ISBN13: 9780819195753
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 172 Pages