Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan: Making Sacred Forests

DescriptionShinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan is the first systematic study of Shinto's environmental turn. The book traces the deve...

Publisher: Intellect BooksAuthor(s): Paul (University of Bristol, UK) GearyIllustration(s): 6 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 224Publica...

Reducere. How do the Japanese about their native philosophy, Shinto, a decade and a half after its abolishment as a state religion by the Western Allies? // ...

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Dramatic statements about the promise and peril of artificial intelligence for humanity abound, as an industry of experts claims that AI is poised ...

DescriptionBefore the Arabs conquered northwest Africa in the seventh century, Ramzi Rouighi asserts, there were no Berbers. There were Moors (Maur...

Contrary to popular belief, the problem with US higher education is not too much politics but too little. Far from being bastions of liberal bias, ...

DescriptionHow are peoples' ideas about languages, ways of speaking and expressive styles shaped by their social positions and values? How is diffe...

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Reducere. DescriptionWidely praised as a seminal contribution to the study of the Old Testament when it first appeared, Michael V. Fox's Character and Ideolo...

This new and fully updated second edition of Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan provides undergraduate and graduate students with an interdiscip...

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This book is an analysis of Indonesia's civil-military relations in the post-1998 reform era. It focuses on the political thinking of the Indonesia...

Reducere. The revival of the Olympic games in 1896 and the subsequent rise of modern athletics prompted a new, energetic movement away from more sedentary ha...

This critical ethnographic school-based case study offers insights onthe interaction between ideology and the identity development of individualEng...

Using analytical tools from a wide spectrum of disciplines, this edited collection analyzes the role of the body in contemporary Japanese society, ...

Reducere. By 2030, over 30% of the Japanese population will be 65 or older, foreshadowing the demographic changes occurring elsewhere in Asia and around the ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 6 bw illusNumber of pages: 328Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 198 x 22Cover type: Pape...

Reducere. Are the works of contemporary Japanese novelists, as Nobel Prize winner Oe Kenzaburo has observed, mere reflections of the vast consumer culture of...

This book explores the transformation of Japan's state in response to the challenges of governance by focusing on the case studies of ICT regulatio...

DescriptionIn Thought Crime Max M. Ward explores the Japanese state's efforts to suppress political radicalism in the 1920s and 1930s. Ward traces ...

This book explores the impact of indigenous ideology and thought on everyday life in Northeast Africa. It shows that for millennia complex indigeno...

In many ways, divorce is a quintessentially personal decision--the choice to leave a marriage that causes harm or feels unfulfilling to the two peo...

This book examines the phenomenon of social withdrawal in Japan, which ranges from school non-attendance to extreme forms of isolation and confinem...

Reducere. The deity Inari has been worshipped in Japan since at least the early eighth century and today is a revered presence in such varied venues as Shint...

DescriptionThe Shinto faith fascinates and mystifies the entire world. Shinto is Japanese for

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Chikako Ozawa-de SilvaIllustration(s): 8 b-w illustrations, 1 tableNumber of pages: 286Collecti...

DescriptionBetween the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history in Japan separated itself from the discipline...

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Reducere. This fascinating and groundbreaking work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and their trees across the entire span of...

Reducere. This elementary level book is intended to introduce children to various geometric shapes found in nature through easy to read poems that teach the ...

Reducere. FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREESA powerful return to the forest, where trees have heartbeats and roots ar...

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Reducere. Bad Water is a sophisticated theoretical analysis of Japanese thinkers and activists' efforts to reintegrate the natural environment into Japan's s...

Presents excerpts from the travel diary of a Japanese mathematician, Yamaguchi Kanzan, who journeyed on foot throughout Japan to collect temple geo...

Reducere. When this work - one that contributes to both the history and anthropology fields - first appeared in 1982, it was hailed as a landmark study of th...

Terry Eagleton's witty and acerbic attacks on contemporary culture and society are read and enjoyed by many, and his studies of literature are rega...

In this highly original study of Confederate ideology and politics, Jeffrey Zvengrowski suggests that Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his...

Publisher: SkiraIllustration(s): 700 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 500Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 221 x 307 x 40Cover type: Hard...

Introducing a gentle but powerful and enduring spiritual pathway reconnecting humanity with Great Nature and affirming all aspects of life.

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