RELIGION IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN by Ian Reader ( 9780333523223 )

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Title:

RELIGION IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN

By:

Ian Reader

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0333523229

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9780333523223

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PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

22 February, 1991

Pages:

292

Description:

This text examines the major areas in which the Japanese participate in religious events, the role of religion in the social system and the underlying views within the Japanese religious world. It also discusses the relevance and responses of religion in a modernizing and changing society.

Synopsis:

What role does religion play in contemporary Japanese society and in the lives of Japanese people today? Through a series of case-studies of religion in action - at crowded temples and festivals, in austere Zen meditation halls, at home and work, at dramatic fire rituals - it illustrates the immense variety, energy and colour inherent in Japanese religion while discussing the continued relevance and responses of religion in a rapidly modernising and changing society.

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