I’m happy to be able to report that Shinto Shrines has been garnering good reviews, and I’m especially pleased for the main author Joseph Cali who put in an inordinate amount of effort into the book. Here are two … Read the rest
Category: Book Reviews (Page 4 of 8)
‘What Used to be Called Shinto’ runs the provocative title of a paper by academic Mark Teeuwen (in Japan Emerging, ed. Karl Friday, 2012). In clear and systematic fashion, he questions the notion of Shinto as ‘Japan’s indigenous religion’ … Read the rest
The following book review by John Dougill first appeared this summer in Japan Review vol. 24…
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Books on Shinto used to be scarce. Walk into a bookshop and you were lucky to find one at all. If you did,
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I’m reposting this review from the Japan Times (originally in Monumenta Nipponica) because I think it’s important… As the review title suggests, the book has to do with common misperceptions about Shinto…
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SHINTO IN HISTORY: Ways of the … Read the rest
It is with great pleasure that Green Shinto is able to announce the forthcoming publication of Shinto Shrines: A Guide to the Sacred Sites of Japan’s Ancient Religion by University of Hawaii Press this autumn….
* comprehensive overview of Shinto … Read the rest
Sourcebook in Shinto: Selected Documents by Stuart Picken (Resources in Asian Philosophy and Religion) Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004 Hardback 399 pages. $165.00.
Ian Reader, author and academic, said of Stuart Picken’s Essentials of Shinto that it was the worst book … Read the rest
The World of Shinto: Reflections of a Shinto Priest by Sonoda Minoru
Published by the International Shinto Foundation, 2002 (36 pages)
This booklet is published by the well-funded International Shinto Foundation, an independent organisation with a mission to explain … Read the rest