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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Shinto"”.
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Comparative study of Judaism and Shinto
… as to dates earlier than 721 B.C.; while Shinto mythology began taking its place as history as recorded from the lips of Hiedo-no-Are and recorded by Imperior order, 712 A.D. Thus, in and out of world history, like two separate rivers, somethimes mighty and sometimes at low ebb, Hebrew …
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American Shinto Community of Practice: Community formation outside original context
Shinto is a native Japanese religion with a history that goes back thousands of years. Because of its close ties to Japanese culture, and Shinto's strong emphasis on place in its practice, it does not seem to be the kind of religion that would migrate to other areas of the world and convert new …
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Shinto: An Experience of Being at Home in the World With Nature and With Others
<p>This study discloses Shinto’s experiential and existential significance and aims to articulate Shinto’s sacred objective. It shows that Shinto, by way of experience, communicates being in the world with nature and with others as a sacred objective. This suggests that Shinto, in communicating its …
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Šintoistinės maldyklos už Japonijos įtakos ribų imperijos ekspansionizmo laikotarpiu /
The thesis examines and compares the spread of Shinto shrines within and beyond the borders of the Empire of Japan, particularly in the context of the political and territorial expansion of the Japanese empire at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The thesis is divided into three …
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Universal Morality in Japanese Tradition
… cross-cultural conversation. Examining Japan?s Shinto, a seemingly particularist creed, I argue against the first assumption: Shinto displays both particular and universal perspectives. This in turn suggests the plurality of universal moralities across traditions. Henceforth I move onto the …
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Korean Christianity and the Shinto Shrine issue in the war period, 1931-1945 : a study of religion and politics
… in response among the churches to the Shinto Shrine Issue in Korea under Japanese colonialism. The central focus is an inquiry into the possible reasons why some religious groups, including the Catholic and Methodist Churches, should choose the way of compromise, while others, such as …
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Sacred Screens: Hinduism, Buddhism, Shintoism and Islam in Popular Culture
… to look towards Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Shinto religions for inspiration when conceiving many of the storylines we find in mainstream entertainment today. This thesis will study key examples of film, video game, literary, and television media to show how these artists weave their …
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Uskonto ja The Japan Times 2020-luvulla
… uskontoina pidettyjä buddhalaisuutta ja shintolaisuutta. Toisaalta voidaan pohtia, onko uskonto-sanaa mahdollista käyttää kattamaan Japanin moninaisia uskonnollisia perinteitä ja kulttuuria, johon erilaiset tavat sekä traditiot ovat historian saatossa muovautuneet tärkeäksi osaksi. …
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Modern Japanese Buddhism in the Context of Interreligious Dialogue, Nationalism and World War II
… in the people through the means of State Shinto and the emperor, kokutai ideology after the Meiji Restoration in 1868, I apply the methodologies of social critical theories of James Scott, Benedict Anderson, Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu. After the Tokugawa shogunate's long patronage …
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Šintoizmo vaidmuo šiuolaikinėje Japonijoje: Shinkai Makoto kūrybos analizė /
… The goal of this work is to analyze the role of Shintoism in contemporary Japan, and its purpose in these three works of Shinkai Makoto. The main objectives are: to determine the development of Shintoism and its main ideas, to analyze the role of Shintoism in contemporary Japanese society through …
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Everyday Fascism in Contemporary Japan
… suburbs (Chapters 1 and 3) and the Yasukuni Shinto Shrine in Tokyo (Chapters 2 and 4), among others. These ethnographies will elucidate how the categories of class, gender, and generation crisscross everyday pleasures and anxieties of commodification. Lastly and not least importantly, another …
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Esteettinen kokemus kulttuurisiltana : Soile Yli-Mäyryn taide kiinalaisen, japanilaisen ja suomalaisen yleisön kokemana
… Confucians, Buddhists or Maoists in China, Shinto followers, Zen Buddhists in Japan or Evangelist-Lutherans in Finland. Keywords: experience, reception, bridge across cultures, types of experiencing subjects, experiential process, ideal landscape, elementality