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The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan: The Vanquished Gods of ...

The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan: The Vanquished Gods of ...

Yijiang Zhong

This policy change led to a transformation in the economic and social life of temples and shrines, a transformation also described by Barbara Ambros in her book on the Ōyama pilgrimage. See Barbara Ambros, Emplacing a Pilgrimage: The ...
Emplacing a pilgrimage: the Ōyama cult and regional religion ...

Emplacing a pilgrimage: the Ōyama cult and regional religion ...

Barbara Ambros

Barbara Ambros provides a detailed narrative history of the mountain and its place in contemporary society and popular religion by focusing on the development of the oyama cult and its religious, political, and socioeconomic contexts.
Women in Japanese Religions

Women in Japanese Religions

Barbara Ambros

in Premodern Japan, edited by Barbara Ruch, 441–62. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 2002. Odaira, Mika. Josei shinshoku no kindai. Tokyo: Perikansha, 2009. Oguri, Junko. Nihon no kindai shakai to Tenrikyō.
Bones of Contention: Animals and Religion in Contemporary Japan

Bones of Contention: Animals and Religion in Contemporary Japan

Barbara Ambros

This book joins a growing body of work in an area called Animal Studies.
Disasters and Social Crisis in Contemporary Japan: ...

Disasters and Social Crisis in Contemporary Japan: ...

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Barbara Ambros On 11 March 2011, a catastrophic 9.0magnitude earthquake shook Northeastern Japan and triggered a tsunami that rose more than 40 meters. In the days following the disaster, Tenrikyō, a new religious movement founded ...
Unfortunate Destiny: Animals in the Indian Buddhist Imagination

Unfortunate Destiny: Animals in the Indian Buddhist Imagination

Reiko Ohnuma

Barbara Ambros (2014, 52–53) likewise observes, “Proponents of econationalism in Japan have often pointed to Buddhism as a major reason for why Japan has supposedly fared so much better than the West in its treatment of animals; ...
Women in Japanese Religions

Women in Japanese Religions

Barbara Ambros

An important corrective to more common male-centered narratives of Japanese religious history, this text presents a synthetic long view of Japanese religions from a distinct angle that has typically been discounted in standard survey ...
The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo ...

The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo ...

Ian Jared Miller

For an in-depth discussion of such rites, see Barbara Ambros, Bones of Contention: Animals and Religion in Contemporary Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2012). For Daimaru's survey, see Daimaru Hideshi, “Dobutsu irei ya ...
Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

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Barbara Ambros The Fourfold Training in Japanese Esoteric Buddhism Richard K. Payne .... The Role of Esoteric Buddhism in Contemporary Japan: Whether Esotericism Appears or Remains Concealed in the World Depends on the Trend of ...
Enfolding Silence: The Transformation of Japanese American ...

Enfolding Silence: The Transformation of Japanese American ...

Brett J. Esaki

Panelists were Emily Anderson, Mark R. Mullins, Suga Koji, Trent Maxey, and Barbara Ambros, with Richard M. Jaffe responding. Panelists explained that the Japanese government created a Ministry of Rites, which regulated only rituals ...
Metro California Media

Metro California Media

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... Williams Department Editors Automotive: Barbara Perkins Business: Barbara Perkins •Entertainment: Larry Croom Fashion: Barbara Perkins Food: Barbara Perkins •Lifestyles: Stuart Kellogg Real Estate: Barbara Perkins Sports Editor: Eddie ...
In Loving Memory of Barbara

In Loving Memory of Barbara

Matthew Wilson

Community nurse came this morning to see Barbara Matthew B/P and stats, taken Barbara still; complaining about her ... week Lynn Cowling willbe coming in Stead- Barbara didn't sleep at alllast Night, because Mark was in and Out ofbed,  ...
Barbara Winslow: Rebel

Barbara Winslow: Rebel

Elizabeth Ellis

Barbara Barba — Barbara Winslow or I'm a Dutchman! Your health, Mistress Barbara Winslow. Ha, ha! I knew I'd remember it soon. We toasted you after the trial, before I rode back to quarters. Lydia Philbeg, forsooth ! Ha, ha ! madame, I' ve ...
The Jacobean and Caroline Stage: Plays and playwrights

The Jacobean and Caroline Stage: Plays and playwrights

Gerald Eades Bentley

In both his letters Mr. Gourlay says that he thinks the play is the work of Thomas Jordan, and in the first letter, but not the second, he records his belief ... Dr. Greg mentions only 'Ellis' and 'Ambros' as actors' names appearing in the manuscript.
Animal Cells and Life Processes

Animal Cells and Life Processes

Barbara A. Somervill

Barbara A. Somervill, None. Barbara A. Somervill Customers from outside the UK please telephone +441865 312262.
The Send-away Girl: Stories

The Send-away Girl: Stories

Barbara Sutton

Stories Barbara Sutton. Published by the ... Printed in the United States of America 04 05 06 07 08 C 5 4 3 2 I Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sutton, Barbara, I960- The send-away girl : stories / by Barbara Sutton. p. cm.
Kruger National Park and Mpumalanga Rough Guides Snapshot ...

Kruger National Park and Mpumalanga Rough Guides Snapshot ...

Barbara McCrea

Barbara McCrea, Donald Reid, Ross Velton, Tony Pinchuck ... Barbara McCrea, Donald Reid & Ross Velton, 2012 ISBN: 9781405386500 Maps © Rough Guides CREATIVE TEAMUpdater: Barbara McCrea Book Editor: Publishing information .. .
Priscilla Gorilla

Priscilla Gorilla

Barbara Bottner

Barbara Bottner ... Mew York loozo Text copyright © 2013 by Barbara Bottner. Illustrations copyright © 2013 by Michael Emberley. All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. ATHENEUM Books for ...
Cognitive Development of Children and Youth: A Longitudinal ...

Cognitive Development of Children and Youth: A Longitudinal ...

Herbert J. Klausmeier

... Richard Gargiulo, Patricia Kalish, Selena Katz, Barbara Kennedy, Peter A. Lamal, Daniel Lynch, Richard Marliave, Barbara Marten, Dean L. Meinke, Gregory Mize, Gerry W. Miller, Barbara A. Nelson, Gordon K. Nelson, Winston E. Rampaul, ...
The Dog Collar Murders

The Dog Collar Murders

Barbara Wilson

Barbara Wilson is the pen name under which Barbara Sjoholm has published the Cassandra Reilly Mysteries and the Pam Nilsen Mysteries. Gaudí Afternoon, of the Cassandra Reilly series, won a Lambda Literary Award and a Crime Writers'  ...
Klara

Klara

Barbara Yates Rothwell

The period from early 1939 to the 1960s is drawn from my own experiences of those years. BARBARA YATES ROTHWELL. About the Author BARBARA YATES ROTHWELL lived, married and brought. Acknowledgement About the Author.
Breaking Through the Stained Glass Ceiling: Women Religious ...

Breaking Through the Stained Glass Ceiling: Women Religious ...

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Moreover, the leading religion correspondent for National Public Radio is a woman, Barbara Bradley Hagerty. Barbara Bradley Hagerty NPR Religion Correspondent, on Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality Barbara ...
Santa Barbara: American Riviera, CA

Santa Barbara: American Riviera, CA

Marlin L. Heckman

Marlin L. Heckman. SUNSET ON THE BEACH, SANTA BARBARA. (P/P: Edward H. Mirchell, San Francisco. No. 10002; posrmark: Ocrober 1910.) PIER AT SANTA BARBARA. Builr ar rhe foor of Srare. \VHHU IHE \\A\ES BRE\K AT HlGH TinE, ...
Endangered Species

Endangered Species

Barbara Block

ENDANGERED SPECIES BARBARA BLOCK KENSINGTON BOOKS KENSINGTON PUBLISHING CORP. http://www.kensingtonbooks.com Allcopyrighted material within is Attributor Protected. Table of Contents Booksby Barbara Block ...
Patrick O'Sullivan and the Mystery of the Rosa Lee:

Patrick O'Sullivan and the Mystery of the Rosa Lee:

Barbara Sutton

Barbara Sutton. - . -- //, /ofton !/.../ s the k', a so, Barbara Sutton | and the Mystery of the Rosa Lee by Barbara Sutton. Brandvold_frontcover.
And the Angels Laughed

And the Angels Laughed

Barbara Eubanks

Laughter, joy, and inspiration-that's what awaits the reader of Barbara Eubanks' second book, "And the Angels Laughed." Barbara Eubanks finds humor in unusual places. As a pastor's wife, she spends much time in church-related events.
Paperbound Books in Print

Paperbound Books in Print

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Bonnie Rapoport. (Ong.) 1981 4 95 (ISBN 0-89716496-7) Peanut Butler Barbara Kraus Guide to Fiber in Food, rev ed Barbara Kraus (Ong) 1981 2 50 (ISBN 0-451 - 09976-1. E9976. Sig). NAL Barbara Rider's Dining Out on Long Island.
Vanishing Act

Vanishing Act

Barbara Block

Books by Barbara Block CHUTES AND ADDERS TWISTER IN PLAIN SIGHT THE SCENT OF MURDER VANISHING ACT ENDANGERED SPECIES Published by Kensington Publishing Corporation VANISHING ACT BARBARA BLOCK ...

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