Defining Shinto : a reader
/ edited by Mark W. MacWilliams and Okuyama Michiaki
- xii, 386 pages
- Critical categories in the study of religion .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : defining Shinto in modern Japan Part 1. Shinto and the modern Japanese nation state : official documents concerning Shinto and shrine administration Part 2. Pre-war Japanese intellectuals on Shinto Part 3. Shinto and ultra-nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s Part 4. Recasting Shinto--post-war reforms and reformulations Part 5. Contemporary ways of defining Shinto