Category: Book Reviews (Page 7 of 8)

‘Enduring Identities: The Guise of Shinto in Contemporary Japan’ by John K. Nelson  
Honolulu: Univ. of Hawaii, 2000  324 pages, medium size.  ISBN 0-8248-2259-5  $25

This book by John Nelson (now at Univ. of San Francisco) could be described as … Read the rest

‘Shinto: The Kami Way’ by Sokyo Ono   US/Japan: Tuttle, 1962 116 pages, small size.  ISBN 4-8053-0189-9 $5.00

This book has for long been the classic work on Shinto in English.  For years it seemed to be the only book on … Read the rest

‘Simple Guide to Shinto’ by Ian Reader  UK: Global Books, 1998  128 pages, small size.  ISBN 1-86034-003-2

This introduction to Shinto is by a lecturer at the University of  Stirling, Scotland, who has written widely of religion in Japan.  There … Read the rest

‘Shinto: The Way Home’ by Thomas P. Kasulis  US: Univ of Hawaii Press,  2004 184 pages, medium size.  ISBN 0-8248-2850-X   $15.00

Kasulis is a philosopher.  Yet his book is free of jargon and far from being ‘difficult’.  The result is … Read the rest

‘Kami no Michi; The way of the Kami’ by Yukitaka Yamamoto  USA: Tsubaki
America, 1987  124 pages, small size.  ISBN 1880656663.  Second hand about $10.00

This autobiography by the 96th head of Tsubaki Jinja is of interest because of his … Read the rest

‘A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine’ by John K. Nelson  US: Univ of  Washington, 1996 286 pages.  ISBN 0-295-97500-8  $17.50

The author teaches anthropology and religion (formerly Univ of Texas, now Univ of San Francisco).  Yet the … Read the rest