A New History of Shinto
by:
John Breen (author)
Mark Teeuwen (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781282550186 (1282550187)
Publish date: January 1st 2010
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pages no: 279
Edition language: English
Shinto is heralded as the indigenous religion of Japan - worshiping of the Sun Goddess and her descendants (e.g. an unbroken line of emperors). Of course it is much more complicated that that, and Breen goes about unpicking the details and the history of what has become Shinto. After a review of the...