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How like a god: deification in japanese religion
In this comprehensive survey, Sato Hiroo tells the story of the origins and transformations of the gods in Japan from prehistory to modern times. Employing a broad range of primary sources from archaeological evidence to chronicles, legends, literary works and other written records, he links evolving concepts of the gods to social political change, including the sacred mystique built up around the emperor legitimatizing the new central state and the revival, centuries later, of veneration fo the emperor for political purposes after the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate. He also explores the connection to shifts in the prevailing religious cosmology, such as the rise in the medieval period of pure land buddhism with hitogam as avatars guiding individuals to salvatuion on the other shore
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