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The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan: The Vanquished Gods of Izumo (Bloomsbury Shinto Studies)

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 | #3389057 in Books |  2016-10-06 |  2016-10-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  233.93 x15.88 x6.14l,.0 | File type: PDF | 272 pages

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|| |This book presents a stimulating case study of the interdependent relationship between the secular and the religious. Yijiang Zhong convincingly argues that the establishment of the public and secular Japanese nation-state was possible only by consigning some

Yijiang Zhong analyses the formation of Shinto as a complex and diverse religious tradition in early modern and Meiji Japan, 1600-1868. Highlighting the role of the god Okuninushi and the mythology centered on the Izumo Shrine in western Japan as part of this process, he shows how and why this god came to be ignored in State Shinto in the modern period.

In doing so, Zhong moves away from the traditional understanding of Shinto history as something completely in...

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