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Religious fundamentalism --- religious fundamentalism --- education --- 11.09.2001 --- terrorist violence --- militance --- juridical, political and intellectual traditions

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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)

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early religions --- the rites of Dionysus --- the Eleusinian mysteries --- Isis and Osiris --- the Egyptian cult of the dead --- the Roman Gods --- the cult of Mithras --- Alexander the Great --- Judaism --- the Kabbalah --- branches of Judaism --- Hebrew and Yiddish --- the Torah --- the Talmud --- the Midrash --- Jewish holy days --- Jewish culture --- Abulafia --- Taoism and Confucianism --- Taoist writings --- Taoist rituals and festivals --- the teachings of Confucius --- Confucian literature and rituals --- Laozi --- Christianity --- Jesus of Nazareth --- early Christians --- monks and monasteries --- the Reformation --- missionaries --- Scholasticism --- Paul of Tarsus --- Islam --- faith --- practice --- Jihad --- Islamic intellectual traditions --- the Qur'an --- Islamic law and customs --- divisions within Islam --- Muhammad --- Hinduism --- the Vedas --- the Upanishads --- the Bhagavad Gita --- karma and samsara --- Mohandas Ghandi --- Buddhism --- the four noble truths --- the eightfold payth --- Theravada Buddhism --- Mahayana Buddhism --- Vajrayana Buddhism --- Zen Buddhism --- Siddharta --- Mormonism --- Pentecostalism --- Wicca --- Rastafarianism --- Scientology