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  • Kyoto's Gion Festival

    A Social History

    by Mark Teeuwen ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Shinto Studies
    This book focuses on the long history of what is arguably the most prestigious and influential festival in Japan – Kyoto's Gion festival. It explores this history from the festival's origins in the late 10th century to its post-war revival, drawing on Japanese historical studies and archival materials as well as the author's participant observation fieldwork.Exploring the social and political ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Lust, Commerce, and Corruption

    An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard, by an Edo Samurai, Abridged Edition

    Edited by Mark Teeuwen, Kate Wildman Nakai ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    By 1816, Japan had recovered from the famines of the 1780s and moved beyond the political reforms of the 1790s. Despite persistent economic and social stresses, the country seemed headed for a new period of growth. The idea that the shogunate would not last forever was far from anyone's mind.Yet, in that year, an anonymous samurai produced a scathing critique of Edo society. Writing as Buyo Inshi, ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Buddhas and Kami in Japan

    Honji Suijaku as a Combinatory Paradigm

    Edited by Fabio Rambelli, Mark Teeuwen ...
    This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the combinatory tradition that dominated premodern and early modern Japanese religion, known as honji suijaku (originals and their traces). It questions received, simplified accounts of the interactions between Shinto and Japanese Buddhism, and presents a more dynamic and variegated religious world, one in which the deities' Buddhist originals and ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Christian Sorcerers on Trial

    Records of the 1827 Osaka Incident

    Edited by Kate Wildman Nakai, Mark Teeuwen, Fumiko Miyazaki ...
    In 1829, three women and three men were paraded through Osaka and crucified. Placards set up at the execution ground proclaimed their crime: they were devotees of the “pernicious creed” of Christianity. Middle-aged widows, the women made a living as mediums, healers, and fortune-tellers. Two of the men dabbled in divination; the third was a doctor who collected books in Chinese on Western learning ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Lust, Commerce, and Corruption

    An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard, by an Edo Samurai

    Edited by Mark Teeuwen, Kate Wildman Nakai ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    By 1816, Japan had recovered from the famines of the 1780s and moved beyond the political reforms of the 1790s. Despite persistent economic and social stresses, the country seemed to be approaching a new period of growth. The idea that the shogunate would not last forever was far from anyone's mind.Yet, in that year, an anonymous samurai author completed one of the most detailed critiques of Edo ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion

    Edited by Bernhard Scheid, Mark Teeuwen ...
    The Japanese Middle Ages were a period when forms of secrecy dominated religious practice. This fascinating collection traces out the secret characteristics and practices in Japanese religion, as well as analyzing the decline of religious esotericism in Japan.The essays in this impressive work refer to Esoteric Buddhism as the core of Japan’s "culture of secrecy". Esoteric Buddhism developed in ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Shinto in History

    Ways of the Kami

    by John Breen, Mark Teeuwen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asian Religion
    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. In recent years, a few books on medieval Shinto have appeared, but none has attempted to depict the broader picture, to examine critically Shinto's origins and its subsequent development through the medieval, pre-modern and modern ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • A Social History of the Ise Shrines

    Divine Capital

    by Mark Teeuwen, John Breen ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Shinto Studies
    The Ise shrine complex is among Japan's most enduring national symbols, and A Social History of the Ise Shrines: Divine Capital is the first book to trace the history of the shrines from their beginnings in the seventh century until the present day. Ise enshrines the Sun Goddess Amaterasu, the imperial ancestress and the most prominent among kami deities, and has played a vital role in Japan's ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • A New History of Shinto

    by John Breen, Mark Teeuwen ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion
    This accessible guide to the development of Japan’s indigenous religion from ancient times to the present day offers an illuminating introduction to the myths, sites and rituals of kami worship, and their role in Shinto’s enduring religious identity.Offers a unique new approach to Shinto history that combines critical analysis with original researchExamines key evolutionary moments in the long ... Read more

    $34.00 USD

  • Christian Sorcerers on Trial

    Records of the 1827 Osaka Incident

    Edited by Kate Wildman Nakai, Mark Teeuwen, Fumiko Miyazaki ...
    In 1829, three women and three men were paraded through Osaka and crucified. Placards set up at the execution ground proclaimed their crime: they were devotees of the “pernicious creed” of Christianity. Middle-aged widows, the women made a living as mediums, healers, and fortune-tellers. Two of the men dabbled in divination; the third was a doctor who collected books in Chinese on Western learning ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Sacred Heritage in Japan

    Edited by Aike P. Rots, Mark Teeuwen ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Museums and Heritage in Asia
    Sacred Heritage in Japan is the first volume to explicitly address the topics of Japanese religion and heritage preservation in connection with each other.The book examines what happens when places of worship and ritual practices are rebranded as national culture. It also considers the impact of being designated tangible or intangible cultural properties and, more recently, as UNESCO World or ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Buddhist Modernities

    Re-inventing Tradition in the Globalizing Modern World

    Edited by Hanna Havnevik, Ute Hüsken, Mark Teeuwen, Vladimir Tikhonov, Koen Wellens ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Religion
    The transformations Buddhism has been undergoing in the modern age have inspired much research over the last decade. The main focus of attention has been the phenomenon known as Buddhist modernism, which is defined as a conscious attempt to adjust Buddhist teachings and practices in conformity with the modern norms of rationality, science, or gender equality. This book advances research on ... Read more

    $63.99 USD