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Ichiro Hori's is a initial book in Western novel to execute how Shinto, Buddhist, Confucian, and Taoist elements, as good as all demeanour of primitive enchanting beliefs and practices, are fused on a folk level.
Folk religion, transmitted by a common people from era to generation, has severely conditioned a political, economic, and informative growth of Japan and continues to prove a romantic and eremite needs of a people. Hori examines a organic attribute between a Japanese amicable structure—the family reciprocity system, encampment and village organizations—and folk religion. A glossary with Japanese characters is enclosed in a index.
By Ichiro Hori
Very informative, though a bit dry in places. Personally we like that, though another chairman might be put off by it.
Folk religion, transmitted by a common people from era to generation, has severely conditioned a political, economic, and informative growth of Japan and continues to prove a romantic and eremite needs of a people. Hori examines a organic attribute between a Japanese amicable structure—the family reciprocity system, encampment and village organizations—and folk religion. A glossary with Japanese characters is enclosed in a index.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #10388835 in Books
- Published on: 1974-09-01
- Binding: Paperback
- 278 pages
Folk Religion in Japan: Continuity and Change (Haskell Lectures on History of Religions) (Paperback)
By Ichiro Hori
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Good reading
By Teresa Huddleston-garcia
Very informative, though a bit dry in places. Personally we like that, though another chairman might be put off by it.