Religion in the Japanese Experience: Sources and Interpretations - Softcover

Earhart, H. Byron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822101041 ISBN 13: 9780822101048

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 1974

Synopsis

* Anthology, designed to parallel Japenese Religion, concerns itself with helping the reader see Japanese religion more concretely as it is found within the history of the tradition and experience of the people.

About this title

About the Author:

H. Byron Earhart studied under Mircea Eliade and Joseph M. Kitagawa at the University of Chicago, where he received a doctorate in History of Religions. He has conducted research in Japan for his dissertation on the "mountain religion" of Shugendo, and for work on folk religion and new religions. He is professor emeritus in the Department of Comparative Religion at Western Michigan University, which awarded him a Distinguished Faculty Scholar award for his numerous publications. A number of his works have been translated into Japanese. His most recent book is MOUNT FUJI: ICON OF JAPAN (University of South Carolina, 2011). His next book is a comparative study of amulets.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0822101041
• ISBN 13: 9780822101048
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288