Description
Now in its Second Edition, Introducing Japanese Religion is the ideal resource for undergraduate students. This edition features new material on folk and popular religion, including shamanism, festivals, and practices surrounding death and funerals. Robert Ellwood also updates the text to discuss recent events, such as religious responses to the Fukushima disaster. Introducing Japanese Religion includes illustrations, lively quotations from original sources, learning goals, summary boxes, questions for discussion, suggestions for further reading, and a glossary to aid study and revision. The accompanying website for this book is available at www.routledge.com/cw/ellwood.
Author: Robert Ellwood
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 02/19/2016
Pages: 306
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.90w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781138958760
ISBN10: 113895876X
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Buddhism | General (see also Philosophy | Buddhist)
- Religion | Eastern
About the Author
Robert Ellwood is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Religion at the University of Southern California. He is the author of over twenty-five books, including Many Peoples, Many Faiths, The Fifties Spiritual Marketplace, The Sixties Spiritual Awakening, and Islands of the Dawn.
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