TY  - BOOK
N2  - What role does religion play in contemporary Japanese society and in the lives of Japanese people today? This text examines the major areas in which the Japanese participate in religious events, the role of religion in the social system and the underlying views within the Japanese religious world. Through a series of case studies of religion in action - at crowded temples and festivals, in austere Zen meditation halls, at home and at work, at dramatic fire rituals - it illustrates the immense variety, energy and colour inherent in Japanese religion. It also discusses the continued relevance and responses of religion in a rapidly modernizing and changing society.
AB  - What role does religion play in contemporary Japanese society and in the lives of Japanese people today? This text examines the major areas in which the Japanese participate in religious events, the role of religion in the social system and the underlying views within the Japanese religious world. Through a series of case studies of religion in action - at crowded temples and festivals, in austere Zen meditation halls, at home and at work, at dramatic fire rituals - it illustrates the immense variety, energy and colour inherent in Japanese religion. It also discusses the continued relevance and responses of religion in a rapidly modernizing and changing society.
T1  - Religion in contemporary Japan /
DA  - ©1991.
CY  - Honolulu :
AU  - Reader, Ian,
CN  - BL2209
CN  - BL2209
PB  - University of Hawaii Press,
PP  - Honolulu :
PY  - ©1991.
ID  - 717734
SN  - 9780824813543
SN  - 0824813545
SN  - 9780824813536
SN  - 0824813537
TI  - Religion in contemporary Japan /
ER  -