Redefining the Gods: Politics and Survival in the Creation of Modern Kami
Interpretations of the gods change with each succeeding political transformation as ritualists redefine the objects of their worship in order to survive. In early seventeenth-century Japan, priests at sites of sacred power enshrined their deities as combinatory gods supportive of the Tokugawa regime...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nanzan Institute
[2002]
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Japanese journal of religious studies
Year: 2002, Volume: 29, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 379-404 |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Shrine Shinto B Buddhism B Deities B Religious Studies B Priests B Purification rituals B Nativism |
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