Shinto Funerals in the Edo Period

Nowadays very few people in Japan have a Shinto funeral. But things might have turned out differently if Shinto activists during the Edo and Meiji periods had achieved their goal of making the Japanese way of death the "kami way," or making Shinto the Japanese way of death. This article pr...

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Main Author: Kenney, Elizabeth 1953-2023 (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Nanzan Institute [2000]
In: Japanese journal of religious studies
Year: 2000, Volume: 27, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 239-271
Further subjects:B Shrine Shinto
B Buddhism
B Religious Studies
B Priests
B Religious rituals
B Funerals
B Death
B Coffins
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