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In this important book, a leading authority on Japanese religions brings together for the first time in English his extensive work on the subject. The book is important both for what it reveals about Japanese religions, and also because it demonstrates for western readers the distinctive Japanese approaches to the study of the subject and the different Japanese intellectual traditions which inform it. The book includes historical, cultural, regional and social approaches, and explains historical changes and regional differences. It goes on to provide cultural and symbolic analyses of festivals

Japanese Americans --- Japanese --- Ethnology --- Kibei Nisei --- Nisei --- Religion. --- Japan --- Religious life and customs. --- J1700 --- J1714 --- J4127 --- J4129 --- Religion --- Japan: Religion -- general and history --- Japan: Religion in general -- sociology of religion --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- social identity and self --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cross-cultural contacts, contrasts and globalization --- Japan: Religion in general --- Japanese religion --- anthropology --- Japanese culture --- Japanese intellectual traditions --- japanese history --- pilgrimage --- funerals --- japanese religions --- Brazil --- japanese buddhism --- shintoism --- shinto --- yorishiro (依り代) --- Kami (神) --- Hawaii --- shinto festivals --- funeral customs --- japanese immigration --- ethnic identity --- Christianity --- japanese christians --- PL Kyodan (Church of Perfect Liberty)