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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-05 - Publisher: Routledge
This book captures the dynamics of history, memory, and territorial cults in Houay Yong, a Tai Vat village situated in the multiethnic highland frontier between
Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-09-02 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Among the most exciting developments in the study of Japanese religion over the past two decades has been the discovery of tens of thousands of ritual vessels,
Language: en
Pages: 484
Pages: 484
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-07-01 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
The political influence of temples in premodern Japan, most clearly manifested in divine demonstrations—where rowdy monks and shrine servants brought holy sym
Language: en
Pages: 532
Pages: 532
Type: BOOK - Published: 1958 - Publisher: Stanford University Press
Explains the structure of the feudal society, describes the rise of economic life and tells of the impact of Commodore Perry's arrival in 1853. Bibliographical
