Enduring Identities: The Guise of Shinto in Contemporary Japan

An attempt to understand Shinto's continuing relevance to the cultural identity of contemporary Japanese. Through an investigation of one of Japan's venerated Shinto shrines, it addresses what appears to western eyes to be an exotic and incongruous blend of superstition and reason.

• | Author: John K. Nelson
• | Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 01, 2000
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780824822590
• | ISBN-10: 0824822595