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Bloomsbury Before Shinto: Buddhism and the Japanese Gods (Bloomsbury Shinto Studies)

Name: Before Shinto: Buddhism and the Japanese Gods (Bloomsbury Shinto Studies)
Brand: Bloomsbury
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Focusing on the fundamental role played by Buddhism in shaping general ideas about and attitudes toward the Japanese gods (kami), this book presents a new revisionist history of Shinto. Based on in-depth historical and cultural analysis and presenting numerous pre-modern sources in English translation, Before Shinto goes against received assumptions that something called Shinto has always existed in Japan as a foundation upon which religions and philosophies of foreign origin were first accepted and then developed. Rather, it demonstrates that Buddhism, in a complex process of assimilation of pre-existing forms of the sacred combined with foreign divinities, created narratives and representations of the kami, which were until then mostly anonymous and invisible, before adding them to its vast cosmology of gods and meta-human beings. Shinto emerged as a separate tradition around the sixteenth century as part of a conscious movement away from Buddhism; within this newly formed framework to envision the gods, different interventions by Confucian and by Nativist authors in particular, became possible. Fabio Rambelli highlights the multiform and shifting nature of discourses on the kami and the continuous process of re-invention of Shinto.

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Brand: Bloomsbury
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1350640972
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Asia > Japan
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 12 November 2026
Listed Since: 23 April 2026

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