Buddhas And Kami In Japan: Honji Suijaku As A Combinatory Paradigm

by Fabio Rambelli

2021-01-08 15:46:21

This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the combinatory tradition that dominated premodern and early modern Japanese religion, known ashonji suijaku(originals and their traces). It questions received, simplified accounts of the int... Read more
This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the combinatory tradition that dominated premodern and early modern Japanese religion, known ashonji suijaku(originals and their traces). It questions received, simplified accounts of the interactions between Shinto and Japanese Buddhism, and presents a more dynamic and variegated religious world, one in which the deities'' Buddhist originals and local traces did not constitute one-to-one associations, but complex combinations of multiple deities based on semiotic operations, doctrines, myths, and legends. The book''s essays, all based on specific case studies, discuss thehonji suijakuparadigm from a number of different perspectives, always integrating historical and doctrinal analysis with interpretive insights. Less

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File size9.21 X 6.14 X 0 in
Print pages384
PublisherRoutledge
Publication date December 9, 2015
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781138965164

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