02 Sep 2003

Encyclopedia entries on Japanese religiosity and syncretism
Kagawa Junior College, Japan
Supplied note: "Three newly released, interrelated articles with photos, based on in-situ research and interviews with Buddhist priests, for the East-West comparative Encyclopedia of Monasticism. For the study of Japanese religion (particularly Kukai's Shingon Buddhism), 'Shikoku, the Pilgrimage Island of Japan' and 'Mount Koya, Japan' will be of general interest. They also provide background for the full impact of 'Buddhist Syncretism in Japan,' which combines many Asian religions synchronically (T'ang/Heian period esotericism, sacred space, honji suijaku setsu, 'mandalization') and diachronically (animistic mountain worship, ancestors/tumuli, proto-Shinto and Shintoism, ancient Hinduism, Taoism, Chinese folk religion, and Buddhism). - smcc."
URL http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/island.html
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