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Princeton University Press 4/14/1999 12: 00: 00 AM Softcover PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
Paperback / softback. New. Presents documents that illuminate the mosaic of Japanese religions in practice. This book is a compendium of relationships between great minds and ordinary people, abstruse theories and mundane acts, natural and supernatural powers, altruism and self-interest, disappointment and hope, quiescence and war. ISBN 0691057893 9780691057897 [GB]
Princeton University Press, Date: 1999-03-08. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1999. Princeton University Press ISBN 0691057893 9780691057897 [US]
Princeton University Press 4/14/1999 12: 00: 00 AM Softcover PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
ISBN10: 0691057893, ISBN13: 9780691057897, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover Book is in NEW condition. [Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]
ISBN10: 0691057893, ISBN13: 9780691057897, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Presents documents that illuminate the mosaic of Japanese religions in practice. This book is a compendium of relationships between great minds and ordinary people, abstruse theories and mundane acts, natural and supernatural powers, altruism and self-interest, disappointment and hope, quiescence and war. [Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1999]
ISBN10: 0691057893, ISBN13: 9780691057897, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover 1999. n. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. [Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]
ISBN10: 0691057893, ISBN13: 9780691057897, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover First Edition Special order direct from the distributor [Victoria, BC, Canada] [Publication Year: 1999]
ISBN10: 0691057893, ISBN13: 9780691057897, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This anthology reflects a range of Japanese religions in their complex, sometimes conflicting, diversity. In the tradition of the Princeton Readings in Religions series, the collection presents documents (legends and miracle tales, hagiographies, ritual prayers and ceremonies, sermons, reform treatises, doctrinal tracts, historical and ethnographic writings), most of which have been translated for the first time here, that serve to illuminate the mosaic of Japanese religions in practice.George Tanabe provides a lucid introduction to the 'patterned confusion' of Japan's religious practices. He has ordered the anthology's forty-five readings under the categories of 'Ethical Practices,' 'Ritual Practices,' and 'Institutional Practices,' moving beyond the traditional classifications of chronology, religious traditions (Shinto, Confucianism, Buddhism, etc.), and sects, and illuminating the actual orientation of people who engage in religious practices. Within the anthology's three broad categories, subdivisions address the topics of social values, clerical and lay precepts, gods, spirits, rituals of realization, faith, court and emperor, sectarian founders, wizards, and heroes, orthopraxis and orthodoxy, and special places. Dating from the eighth through the ...
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