Professor Yijiang Zhong: 1 book

Book cover of The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan

The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan

The Vanquished Gods of Izumo

by Professor Yijiang Zhong
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016

Yijiang Zhong analyses the formation of Shinto as a complex and diverse religious tradition in early modern and Meiji Japan, 1600-1868. Highlighting the role of the god Okuninushi and the mythology centered on the Izumo Shrine in western Japan as part of this process, he shows how and why this god...
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