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10 best books like The Essence of Shinto: Japan's Spiritual Heart (Motohisa Yamakage): Japan: A Reinterpretation, Japan: A Modern History, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan, Princess Mononoke Film Comic, Vol. 1, Nihongi, Shinto: The Kami Way, A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine, The Essentials of Hinduism: A Comprehensive Overview of the World's Oldest Religion, The Japanese Chronicles

Japan: A Reinterpretation
AuthorPatrick Smith
ISBN0679745114
Current Affairs/Asian Studies

Winner of the Overseas Press Club Award
for the best book on Foreign Affairs
A New York Times Notable Book of the year

"A stimulating, provocative book . . . fresh and valuable."  
--The New York Times Book Review

In 1868, Japan...
Japan: A Modern History
AuthorJames L. McClain
This text conveys the turbulent political, economic and social change that over four centuries positioned Japan as a modern world power. This narrative examines the impact of towering figures such as Leyasu, the architect of the Tokugawa state, and the experiences of everyday Japanese - farmers,...
Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism
AuthorGershom Scholem
ISBN0805210423

"Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism" tells the history of Jewish mysticism following the advent of Christianity which Gershom Scholem considers to have been the first and still the most catastrophic Jewish mystic movement. Scholem, who defines mysticism as a religious practice which emphasizes...
Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan
AuthorMikiso Hane
ISBN0520084217
In this book, for the first time, we can hear the startling, moving voices of adventurous and rebellious Japanese women as they eloquently challenged the social repression of prewar Japan. The extraordinary women whose memoirs, recollections, and essays are presented here constitute a strong current...
Princess Mononoke Film Comic, Vol. 1
AuthorHayao Miyazaki
ISBN1421505975
Set in the Japanese countryside of the lawless and chaotic Muromachi Period, PRINCESS MONONOKE is the story of a young man's quest to reconcile the powerful forces of human civilization and industry with the need to live harmoniously in the natural world. It is a time when Samurai warriors raid each...
Nihongi
AuthorŌ no Yasumaro
ISBN0804836744
Wow. This was almost unreadable. Part of me feels obligated to give it a higher star rating just because the preservation of the earliest known Japanese history is worthy regardless of whether it's enjoyable to read. But I just couldn't. Perhaps this is an expression pf my Western bias, but I was expecting...
Shinto: The Kami Way
AuthorSokyo Ono
ISBN0804835578
"An excellently rounded introduction by an eminent Shinto scholar."—Library Journal

Shinto, the indigenous faith of the Japanese people, continues to fascinate and mystify both the casual visitor to Japan and the long-time resident. Relatively unknown among the religions of the world,...
A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine
AuthorJohn K. Nelson
ISBN0295975008
What we today call Shinto has been at the heart of Japanese culture for almost as long as there has been a political entity distinguishing itself as Japan. A Year in the Life of a Shinto Shrine describes the ritual cycle at Suwa Shrine, Nagasaki's major Shinto shrine. Conversations with priests, other...
The Essentials of Hinduism: A Comprehensive Overview of the World's Oldest Religion
AuthorSwami Bhaskarananda
ISBN1884852041
A comprehensive overview of the world's oldest religion. Editorial reviews: "Swami Bhaskarananda has written a compact, yet amazingly comprehensive treatment of the essentials of the Hindu view of life, emphasizing the very things one wishes most to know about when first approaching this complicated,...
The Japanese Chronicles
AuthorNicolas Bouvier
ISBN1562790080
Part-Japanese history, part-travelogue, part-personal memoir. This was originally written in French under the title "Chronique Japonaise." But the translation is excellent for it succeeds in preserving the breathtaking poetry that the author has shown possible in the act of seeing new places...
The Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture
AuthorRoger J. Davies
ISBN0804832951
In The Japanese Mind, Roger Davies offers Westerners an invaluable key to the unique aspects of Japanese culture. Readers of this book will gain a clear understanding of what really makes the Japanese, and their society, tick. Among the topics explored: aimai (ambiguity), amae (dependence upon others'...
Shinto: Origins, Rituals, Festivals, Spirits, Sacred Places
AuthorC. Scott Littleton
ISBN0195218868
Shinto provides a succinct, authoritative and accessible introduction to one of the great religious traditions. The book is organized around nine key themes: Origins and Historical Development, Aspects of the Divine, Sacred Texts, Sacred Persons, Ethical Principles, Sacred Space, Sacred Time,...
The Making of Modern Japan
AuthorMarius B. Jansen
ISBN0674009916
Magisterial in vision, sweeping in scope, this monumental work presents a seamless account of Japanese society during the modern era, from 1600 to the present. A distillation of more than fifty years' engagement with Japan and its history, it is the crowning work of our leading interpreter of the modern...
Dionysus: Myth and Cult
AuthorWalter F. Otto
ISBN0253208912
In this classic study of the myth and cult of Dionysus, Walter F. Otto recreates the theological world of ancient Greek religion. Otto's provocative starting point is to accept the immanent reality of the gods. To understand the cult of Dionysus, it is necessary to reimagine the original vision of the...
A General Theory of Magic
AuthorMarcel Mauss
ISBN0415253969
First written by Marcel Mauss and Henri Humbert in 1902, A General Theory of Magic gained a wide new readership when republished by Mauss in 1950. As a study of magic in 'primitive' societies and its survival today in our thoughts and social actions, it represents what Claude Levi-Strauss called, in...
Henry VIII: The Mask of Royalty
AuthorLacey Baldwin Smith
ISBN0897330560
This was not really a biography but more of a study of Henry VIII.A study that mostly succeeds in showing who Henry was behind all the glamour and majesty that was kingship in the Tudor era.Henry was a king,some say a monster but ultimately he was just a man caught up in the power and drama that became his life...
Shinsengumi: The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps
AuthorRomulus Hillsborough
ISBN0804836272
Shinsengumi: The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps is the true story of the notorious samurai corps formed in 1863 to arrest or kill the enemies of the Tokugawa Shogun.

The only book in English about the Shinsengumi, it focuses on the corps' two charismatic leaders, Kondo Isami and Hijikata Toshizo,...
Conversations with Ogotemmêli: An Introduction to Dogon Religious Ideas
AuthorMarcel Griaule
ISBN0195198212
A fascinating introduction to an ancient traditional society and its patterns of thought. The book is written up from a series of conversations with a Dogon elder. From seemingly simple beginnings, a complex system of thought and classification is gradually built up. The overall impression that...
Creole Religions of the Caribbean: An Introduction from Vodou and Santera to Obeah and Espiritismo
AuthorMargarite Fernandez Olmos
ISBN0814727204
Creolization--the coming together of diverse beliefs and practices to form new beliefs and practices-is one of the most significant phenomena in Caribbean religious history. Brought together in the crucible of the sugar plantation, Caribbean peoples drew on the variants of Christianity brought...
Bonewits's Essential Guide to Witchcraft and Wicca
AuthorIsaac Bonewits
ISBN0806527110
I loved this book! It's not only a must-read for "newcomers" to the Craft but also for the Elders of the Craft! Like Hutton's 'Triumph' this book is groundbreaking and a very worthy read when you want to know about Wicca's true history. Whereas I do think that the lack of evidence doesn't necessarily prove...
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