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Price: $24.00
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Sale: $4.99
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Manufacturer: Travelers' Tales
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Mikkel Aaland
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Publisher: Travelers' Tales
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 299.56117873
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Publication Date: 2000-01-12
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Reading Level: 280
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Description: At the height of the Cold War, writer and photographer Mikkel Aaland finds himself drawn into a mysterious Shinto priest’s plan to save the world. Traveling from Norway to the Philippines, Iceland to South Africa, he places pieces of a sacred Shinto sword in key power spots around the world. Along the way he comes face to face with his fears of war and destruction. This is the second title in the Travelers’ Tales Footsteps series.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $7.28
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Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Howard Wilson
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Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 299
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Publication Date: 2003-07-27
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Reading Level: 153
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Description: Is it true, as they say, the virtues of wisdom, bravery, honor, loyalty, compassion and purity enshrined in the Japanese soul have become lost in the rush of modern civilization? Has the power divine, the spirit of infinite light, love, tears and remembrance, and the courage to die for a noble cause become the stuff old movies in Japan are made of? After more than forty years in Japan I once thought so. But through a revelation of penetrating spiritual observations about the legacy of gods and men enshrined in the Japanese soul the late head priest of tatsuta taisha, the Dragon Shrine, showed me I was wrong.Where the Trees Grow Thick is a search for a dying fortress called the Yamato spirit The unseen is never easy to find, but searching for it-as I discovered-is like coming to know one's True Self.
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Price: $165.00
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Sale: $116.38
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Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Stuart D. B. Picken
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Publisher: Praeger Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 299.561
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Publication Date: 2004-10-30
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Reading Level: 428
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Description: Shinto is a remarkably complex and elusive phenomenon to which Western categories of religion do not readily apply. A knowledge of Shinto can only proceed from a basic understanding of Japanese shrines and civilization, for it is closely intermingled with the Japanese way of life and continues to be a vital natural religion. This companion to Picken's first volume, Essentials of Shinto: An Analytical Guide to Principal Teachings, provides a selection of important and pivotal documents in the history of the Shinto tradition. This volume contains a collection of texts and materials related to the Shinto tradition from the classical age of Japan to modern times. Selections from the Japanese classics are followed by liturgical texts and relevant historical documents from the Nara and Heian periods. Next, documents relating to the period of State Shinto are followed by laws regulating Imperial Household Shinto both pre- and post- World War II. This is followed by a brief selection of writings related to Shinto and the New Religions. The remainder of the book is occupied by selections of texts firstly on Shinto Thought from the 13th century to the Meiji Restoration of 1868. The four closing chapters document early and recent western views of Shinto, and a selection of Japanese writings covering the same period. Finally, the appendixes include the official list of Emperors and the nation's oldest shrines.
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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $5.98
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Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Helen Hardacre
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 299
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Publication Date: 1988-11-01
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: Adherents of several hundred groups known as "new religions" include roughly one-third of the Japanese population, but these movements remain largely unstudied in the West. To account for their general similarity, Helen Hardacre identifies a common world view uniting the new religions. She uses the example of Kurozumikyo, a Shinto religion founded in rural Japan in 1814, to show how the new religions developed from older religious organizations. Included in the book are a discussion of counseling that portrays the many linked functions of rural churches, an autobiographical life history by a woman minister, and a case study of healing.
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Price: $9.95
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Sale: $21.95
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Manufacturer: Weiser Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Karlfried Durckheim
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Publisher: Weiser Books
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Edition: Revised
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Dewey Decimal Number: 181.12
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Publication Date: 1992-04
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Reading Level: 128
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Description: Teaches us that the Japanese culture owes its admirable ability to preserve inner tranquility in the in the midst of the clamor of life to spiritual training. Durckheim outlines the nature of Japanese exercise, and shares basic techniques which enable us to train ourselves in the preservation of an inner tranquility that can become a part of our daily living.
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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $13.85
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Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Gene Jinsiong Cho
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Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
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Edition: 0
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Publication Date: 2007-12-27
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Reading Level: 289
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Description: Puzzled by a passage in the Old Testament implying that the Ark of the Covenant—the most sacred item in monotheistic Judaism—was not only touched by forbidden human hands but that some of its contents had been removed, academician Gene Jinsiong Cho set out to learn the fate of those missing articles. Based on compelling evidence from linguistics, genetics, archaeology, and anthropology, Cho proposes that the sacred regalia of the ancient Hebrews were carried by itinerant tribes through centuries of migration across Central Asia and finally to the Japanese archipelago—where the articles (or their replicas) are preserved to this day within the great shrines of Japan.
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Price: $27.93
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Sale: $11.38
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Manufacturer: Graphic Universe
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Library Binding
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Author: Paul D. Storrie
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Publisher: Graphic Universe
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Dewey Decimal Number: 299.56113
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Publication Date: 2007-02
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Reading Level: 48
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Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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Description: This graphic novel tells the story of Amaterasu, the Japanese Shinto goddess of the sun. Amaterasu's parents create the first eight islands of Japan. Amaterasu's father later puts his children in charge of parts of the natural world. Beautiful and kindly Amaterasu is made the goddess of the sun. But her brother, Susano, god of the sea and storms, is jealous of his sister's position. In fear of Susano's temper, Amaterasu hides in a cave, plunging the world into darkness. The other gods and goddesses must come up with a clever plan to lure Amaterasu from her hiding place and restore order to the world.
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Price: $146.95
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Sale: $102.97
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Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Stuart D.B. Picken
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Publisher: Greenwood Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 299.5612
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Publication Date: 1994-11-30
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Reading Level: 440
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Description: Shinto is finally receiving the attention it deserves as a fundamental component of Japanese culture. Nevertheless, it remains a remarkably complex and elusive phenomenon to which Western categories of religion do not readily apply. A knowledge of Shinto can only proceed from a basic understanding of Japanese shrines and civilization, for it is closely intermingled with the Japanese way of life and continues to be a vital natural religion. This book is a convenient guide to Shinto thought. As a reference work, the volume does not offer a detailed critical study of all aspects of Shinto. Instead, it overviews the essential teachings of Shinto and provides the necessary cultural and historical context for understanding Shinto as a dynamic force in Japanese civilization. The book begins with an historical overview of Shinto, followed by a discussion of Japanese myths. The volume then discusses the role of shrines, which are central to Shinto rituals. Other portions of the book discuss the various Shinto sects and the evolution of Shinto from the Heian period to the present. Because Japanese terms are central to Shinto, the work includes a glossary.
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Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Tsunetsugu Muraoka
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Publisher: Greenwood Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 299.5612
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Publication Date: 1988-10-10
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Reading Level: 293
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Description: The volume collects eight essays from Tsunetsugu Muraoka's innovative work, Studies on the History of Japanese Thought. Although not well known outside Japan, Muraoka's analysis of the special characteristics of Shinto belief and morality, especially his comparative study of the ideas and beliefs of principal participants in the Shinto revival of the pre-Meiji era, have made him Japan's most distinguished scholar of Shinto thought. Here his seminal contributions are made available to a wider audience for the first time.
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Price: $190.00
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Sale: $158.06
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Manufacturer: RoutledgeCurzon
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: John Breen
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Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 291
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Publication Date: 2000-07-03
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: 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 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.
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Displaying records 41 through 50 of 84
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