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1 online resource (134 pages) |
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Routledge Library Editions |
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Routledge Library Editions
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Book cover; title01; copyright01; title02; copyright02; preface; publisher's note; contents; abbreviations used; a study of shinto, the religion of the japanese nation; book i: introduction; book ii: genetical or historical; part i: shintō in the stage of nature religion; section i: pre-polydemonistic and polydemonistic stages of shintō; chapter i: some traces of animatism or pre-animism in shintō; chapter ii: animistic phases of natureworship among the japanese-complex nature worship; chapter iii: fetishism and phallicism; chapter iv: spiritism |
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Chapter v: anthropolatry and ancestor worship in the stage of nature religionchapter vi: totemism and primitive monotheism in original shintō; chapter vii: shintō as a sheer polytheism; chapter viii: theanthropic aspect of shintō deities-shintō as a theanthropic or homocentric religion; chapter ix: shintō is the japanese national religion of natural growth; chapter x: ancient shintō practices; part ii: shintō in the stage of ethico-intellectualistic religion; chapter xi: dawn of intellectual awakening |
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Chapter xii: dethronement of minor deities and amalgamation or unification of different deitieschapter xiii: from polytheism to pantheismwith some phases of henotheism and monotheism; chapter xiv: ancient myths and the three divine imperial regalia: an attempt at rational interpretation; chapter xv: germs of moral ideas in shintō and appearance of a change in the idea of sacrifice; chapter xvi: inner purity emphasized, and sincerity or uprightness as the fundamental ethical principle becomes pre-eminent in shintō |
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Chapter xvii: ethical transformation of the naturalistic phallic deities from a higher religious point of view and some shintō rites or ceremonies moralizedchapter xviii: worship of shintō deities in spirit and in truth-resulting in iconoclasm; chapter xix: some deeper reflections upon the divine protection of the nation-a problem unsolved from the old standpoint of shintō, the national religion of japan; chapter xx: unique position of shintō among the world's religions; bibliography; index |
| Summary |
This volume investigates and present the salient features of Shinto through a long history of development from its remote past up to the present. It is a historical study of Shinto from a scientific point of view, illustrating the higher aspects of the religion, compile on strict lines of religious comparison |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203842157 |
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0203842154 |
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