The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan
The Vanquished Gods of Izumo
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 internal to the nation of Japan, and instead situates the formation of Shinto within a larger geopolitical context involving intellectual and political developments in the East Asian reg…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4742-7109-7
- EAN: 9781474271097
- Produktnummer: 20565222
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 6'309 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 24 bw illus
Über den Autor
Yijiang Zhong is Associate Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia at the University of Tokyo, Japan and Research Fellow of the Center for Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions at the Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago, USA, and was previously a Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore.
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