Author: W. G. Aston
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: gods, way, shinto
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2004-09-20
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1417948728
ISBN-13: 9781417948727
1905. This work comprises an outline theory of the origin and earlier stages of the development of religion, prepared with special reference to the Shinto evidence. Contents: Materials for the Study of Shinto; General Features-Personification; General Features-Deification of Men; General Features-Functions of Gods, etc.; Myth; The Mythical Narrative; The Pantheon-Nature-Deities; The Pantheon-Man-Deities; The Priesthood; Worship; Morals, Law and Purity; Ceremonial; Magic, Divination, Inspiration; and Decay of Shinto. Modern Sects.
Author: J.W.T Mason
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Keywords: shinto, meaning
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2002-06-06
List price: $18.50
ISBN-10: 1553691393
ISBN-13: 9781553691396
J.W.T. Mason presents rare insight not only into the basic beliefs of Shinto, but also into the importance of mythology and creativity to the evolution of our understanding of life and the universe. Mason begins by establishing his view of the development of man, language, and spiritual expression. Early man had an innate, intuitive understanding of the universe. This understanding was expressed through mythology and ritual. Shinto’s traditions and practices still reflect this ancient understanding that all things, living and non-living are of divine spirit. Man is an integral part of Gr
Authors:Sokyo Ono Ph.D., William P. Woodard,
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Keywords: way, kami, shinto
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2004-04-15
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0804835578
ISBN-13: 9780804835572
Author: Stuart D. B. Picken
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
Keywords: earth, revering, meditations, shinto
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2002-04-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1880656663
ISBN-13: 9781880656662
For more than a thousand years, the religious Shinto rituals of Japan have celebrated Nature’s spiritual power to heal, strengthen, and enlighten. In SHINTO MEDITATIONS, these ancient devotions to the Earth will inspire readers to cultivate a new spirit of reverence for the spirituality of the natural world that surrounds us. With each meditation--gazing up into the treetops, listening to thunder, feeling the rain fall on our skin--we awaken to the cosmic content within each of us. Readers will learn how to conduct misogi (the Shinto ritual waterfall purification) and find
Author: John K. Nelson
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Keywords: shrine, shinto, life, year
Number of Pages: 16
Published: 1996-04
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0295975008
ISBN-13: 9780295975009
What we today call Shinto has been at the heart of Japanese culture for almost as long as there has been a political entity distinguishing itself as Japan. "A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine" describes the ritual cycle at Suwa Shrine, Nagasaki’s major Shinto shrine. Conversations with priests, other shrine personnel, and people attending shrine functions supplement John K. Nelson’s observations of over fifty shrine rituals and festivals. He elicits their views on the meaning and personal relevance of the religious events and the place of Shinto and Suwa Shrine in Japanese socie
Author: Charles William Hepner
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: shinto, sect, kurozumi
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0766191990
ISBN-13: 9780766191990
1935. In 1912 Hepner was ordained and commissioned by the Board of Foreign Missions of The United Synod South as a Missionary to Japan. During his tenure there he acquired an unusual facility both in speaking and reading Japanese. Within a few years, he decided on Shinto as his special field of study and thus began the study that lead to this publication. This volume contains Hepner’s dissertation on the Kurozumi Sect, which introduces academic circles of the Occident to the Culture Religion State of Shinto, and makes a valuable contribution in the field of Comparative Religion.
Author: Thomas P. Kasulis
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: asian, spirituality, dimensions, home, way, shinto
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2004-08-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 082482850X
ISBN-13: 9780824828509
Nine out of ten Japanese claim some affiliation with Shinto, but in the West the religion remains the least studied of the major Asian spiritual traditions. It is so interlaced with Japanese cultural values and practices that scholarly studies usually focus on only one of its dimensions: Shinto as a "nature religion," an "imperial state religion," a "primal religion," or a "folk amalgam of practices and beliefs." Thomas Kasulis’ fresh approach to Shinto explains with clarity and economy how these different aspects interrelate. As a philosopher of religion, he first analyzes the experient
