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Understanding Shinto : origins, beliefs, practices, festivals, spirits, sacred places

Provides a succint, authorative introduction to one of the great religious traditions. The book is organised around nine key themes: origins and historical development; aspects of the divine; sacred texts; sacred persons; ethical principles; sacred space; sacred time; death and the afterlife; and society and religion

Print Book, English, 2002
Duncan Baird Publishers, London, 2002