Invention of Religion in Japan

Informationen zum Autor Jason Ananda Josephson is assistant professor of religion at Williams College. Klappentext Through most of its long history! Japan had no concept of what we call "religion." In this book! the author reveals how Japanese officials invented religion in Japan and traces the sweeping intellectual! legal! and cultural changes that followed. Zusammenfassung Through most of its long history! Japan had no concept of what we call "religion." In this book! the author reveals how Japanese officials invented religion in Japan and traces the sweeping intellectual! legal! and cultural changes that followed.

Product details

• Authors: Jason Ananda Josephson, Josephson Jason Ananda
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.10.2012
• EAN: 9780226412337
• ISBN: 978-0-226-41233-7
• No. of pages: 408
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science; Japan, RELIGION / History, RELIGION / Shintoism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Politics & government, History of Religion, Politics and government, Asian History, Shintoism