Shinto

Reader, Ian; Guides, Simple

ISBN 10: 1857334337 / ISBN 13: 9781857334333

Published by Kuperard, 2008

About this Item

pp. 144, Map.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shinto
• Publisher: Kuperard
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857334337
• ISBN 13: 9781857334333
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Ian Reader has been teaching and researching the religions of Japan for many years. His PhD on Japanese Buddhism was gained at the University of Leeds in 1983, after which he and his wife Dorothy lived and worked in Japan for almost six years. Since 1989 he has been a member of the Scottish Centre for Japanese Studies at the University of Stirling, Scotland. He also spent a year as a Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii in 1992-93. For three years from August 1995 he lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies. Amongst his books are Religion in Contemporary Japan, Pilgrimage in Popular Culture, and A Poisonous Cocktail? Aum Shinrikyo's Path to Violence

About the Author

Ian Reader has been teaching and researching the religions of Japan for many years. His PhD on Japanese Buddhism was gained at the University of Leeds in 1983, after which he and his wife Dorothy lived and worked in Japan for almost six years. Since 1989 he has been a member of the Scottish Centre for Japanese Studies at the University of Stirling, Scotland. He also spent a year as a Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii in 1992-93. For three years from August 1995 he lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Nordic Institute of Asian