Japanese religions at home and abroad : anthropological perspectives / Hirochika Nakamaki.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-210) and index.

Print version record.

pt. 1. At home -- pt. 2. Abroad.

pt. I. At home -- 1. A consumer's perspective of religious habitat segregation in Japan -- 2. Dialectics of Japanese religious thought and organization -- 3. Modern Japanese religions from the perspective of "civilization studies" -- 4. The "symbol analysis" of a Shinto festival -- 5. "Continuity and change" in Japanese funeral customs -- 6. Metaphors of initiation and pilgrimage in Japan -- pt. II. Abroad -- 7. Ecological and immunological aspects of Japanese Buddhism in the Americas -- 8. "Ethnic identity" and Japanese Christian churches in the USA -- 9. The "life history" of a Buddhist leader in Brazil -- 10. Perfect Liberty, Kyodan as a multinational enterprise: the case of Brazil.

In this important book, a leading authority on Japanese religions brings together for the first time in English his extensive work on the subject. The book is important both for what it reveals about Japanese religions, and also because it demonstrates for western readers the distinctive Japanese approaches to the study of the subject and the different Japanese intellectual traditions which inform it. The book includes historical, cultural, regional and social approaches, and explains historical changes and regional differences. It goes on to provide cultural and symbolic analyses of festivals.

English.

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