Shinto in History

by Breen, John; Teeuwen, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780824823634
• ISBN10: 082482363X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr

Summary

This is the only book to date offering a critical overview of Shinto from early times to the modern era, and evaluating Shinto's place in Japanese religious culture. None of the several books on medieval Shinto that have appeared in recent years has attempted to depict the broader picture, to examine critically Shinto's origins and its subsequent development through the medieval, pre-modern and modern periods. The essays in this book address such key topics as Shinto and Daoism in early Japan, Shinto and the natural environment, Shinto and state ritual in early Japan, Shinto and Buddhism in medieval Japan, and Shinto and the state in the modern period. All of the essays highlight the dynamic nature of Shinto and shrine history by focusing on the three-way relationship, often fraught, between local shrine cults, Shinto agendas and Buddhism. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Dr John Breen teaches at SOAS, University of London Dr Mark Teeuwen teaches at the University of Oslo, Norway

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	viii
Contributors	ix
Map of Japan	xii
Introduction: Shinto past and present	1	(12)
John Breen
Mark Teeuwen
Shinto and Taoism in early Japan	13	(19)
Tim Barrett
Shinto and the natural environment	32	(15)
Sonoda Minoru
The state cult of the Nara and early Heian periods	47	(21)
Nelly Naumann
The economics of ritual power	68	(27)
Allan Grapard
The kami in esoteric Buddhist thought and practice	95	(22)
Mark Teeuwen
Reading the Yuiitsu Shinto myobo yoshu: A modern exegesis of an esoteric Shinto text	117	(27)
Bernhard Scheid
The death of a shogun: deification in early modern Japan	144	(23)
W. J. Boot
Changing images of Shinto: Sanja takusen or the three oracles	167	(19)
Brian Bocking
Mapping the Sacred Body: Shinto versus popular beliefs at Mt. Iwaki in Tsugaru	186	(19)
Nicola Liscutin
Nativism as a social movement: Katagiri Harukazu and the Hongaku reisha	205	(25)
Anne Walthall
Ideologues, bureaucrats and priests: on `Shinto' and `Buddhism' in early Meiji Japan	230	(22)
John Breen
Shinto as a `non-religion': the origins and development of an idea	252	(20)
Nitta Hitoshi
The structure of state Shinto: its creation, development and demise	272	(23)
Sakamoto Koremaru
The disfiguring of nativism: Hirata Atsutane and Orikuchi Shinobu	295	(23)
Kamata Toji
Tanaka Yoshito and the beginnings of Shintogaku	318	(22)
Isomae Jun'ichi
Bibliography	340	(17)
Index	357