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The Religious Traditions of Japan 500–1600

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Author: Richard Bowring, University of Cambridge

Date Published: April 2008
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isbn: 9780521720274

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Richard Bowring traces 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 in order to give as full a picture as possible of the richness of the Japanese tradition and an overview of how Buddhism and Shintõ interacted in Japanese culture.
- The first Western language book to give an overview of the interaction between Buddhism and Shintō in Japanese culture
- Takes account of the latest scholarship on Japan's religious traditions
- A comprehensive guide to this long and formative period in Japan's religious history
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By incorporating recent scholarship into this book, Bowring has filled a significant gap in the study of Japanese religion in general. Written with nonspecialists in mind, this book, with its historical detail, Japanese terminology, and kanji, will also interest those with a more specialized background in things Japanese.
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"...it is an engrossing, fascinating, and exhaustive study. The author has succeeded in almost mimetically reproducing the ongoing and dynamic quality of the history of Japanase religion: topoi such as kami veneration appear and reappear as historical actors appropriate such themes--from their discursive toolbox--in a series of different contexts in the premodern Japanese isles." - Brian O. Ruppert, University of Illinois,
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Product details
- Date Published: April 2008
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521720274
- length: 502 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 30 mm
- weight: 0.8kg
- contains: 34 b/w illus. 11 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. The Arrival of Buddhism and Its Effects (c.538–800):
1. The introduction of Buddhism
2. Creating a dynasty
3. Buddhism and the early state
4. Monuments at Nara
Part II. From Saichō to the Destruction of Tōdaiji (800–1180):
5. The beginnings of a 'Japanese' Buddhism: Tendai
6. The beginnings of a 'Japanese' Buddhism: Shingon
7. Buddhism and the state in Heian Japan
8. Shrine and state in Heian Japan
9. The rise of devotionalism
10. A time for strife
Part III. From the Destruction of Tōdaiji to the Fall of Godaigo (1180–1330):
11. For and against exclusive practice of the nenbutsu
12. Religious culture of the early 'middle ages'
13. Chan Buddhism
14. Zen Buddhism
15. Reform from within and without
16. The emergence of Shintō
17. Taking stock
Part IV. From the Fall of Godaigo to the Death of Nobunaga (1330–1582):
18. Two rival courts
19. Muromachi Zen
20. The end of the medieval
21. Appendix: reading Shingon's two mandala.
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Richard Bowring, University of Cambridge
Richard Bowring is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Cambridge and Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge. He is co-author of The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan (1993) and has written a number of Japanese Language textbooks.