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Shinto and Japanese Religion

A New History of Shinto

by John Breen and Mark Teeuwen

A revisionist history arguing that Shinto has been repeatedly reinvented around shrines and rituals rather than being an unchanging indigenous faith. Case studies of Ise, Miwa and other sites illustrate its changing meanings.

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