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| #1460215 in Books | Princeton University Press | 1990-12-01 | 1990-12-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.34 x5.00l,.36 | File type: PDF | 136 pages | ||12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.| A prayer-book for the Shinto religion|By Zack Davisson|The Japanese religion of Shinto has no holy book, no guide for how to live a moral life and achieve glory in heaven. It is very much a "this worldly" religion, trading worship of the kami in return for blessings on crops and weather. The traditions of worship, the calls to the kami for their blessing, have been handed d
This volume presents the only English translation of the prayers of Japan's indigenous religious tradition, Shinto. These prayers, norito, are works of religious literature that are basic to our understanding of Japanese religious history. Locating Donald Philippi as one of a small number of scholars who have developed a perceptive approach to the problem of "hermeneutical distance" in dealing with ancient or foreign texts, Joseph M. Kitagawa recalls Mircea Eliade's o...
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