About this title: This volume presents the only English translation of the prayers of Japan's indigenous religious tradition, Shinto. These prayers, norito, are works of religious literature that are basic to our understanding of Japanese religious history. Locating Donald Philippi as one of a small number of scholars who have developed a perceptive approach to the problem of "hermeneutical distance" in dealing with ancient or foreign texts, Joseph M. Kitagawa recalls Mircea Eliade's observation that "most of the time [our] encounters and comparisons with non-Western cultures have not made all the 'strangeness ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780691014890ISBN:0691014892
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. No creases, tears or writing. The tips of the corners are rubbed on the front cover, and the top edge has faded slightly from sun exposure. The binding is tight. 95 pgs. read more
Edition: 1st ed.
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780691014890ISBN:0691014892
Description: Fine. Large paperback, condition is flawless, great gift copy, first printing of this edition as evidenced by the publisher's "1" in the number line on copyright page, "contains the only available English translation of the prayers of Japan's indigenous religious tradition, Shinto" read more
Edition: 1st edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780691014890ISBN:0691014892
Description: Near Fine. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. There is a tiny amount of fading at the book's spine. It is otherwise clean and unmarked, and its binding is square and tight. A translation of Shinto prayers ("norito"). Notes, bibliography, glossary. read more
Description: New in no jacket. pp. 95. This volume contains the only available English translation of the prayers of Japanís indigenous religious tradition, Shinto. These prayers, norito, are works of religious literature that are basic to our understanding of Japanese religious history. Composed in the stately ritual language of the ancient Japanese & presented as a ìperforming text. î In the preface Kitagawa elucidates their significance, discusses Philippiís methods of encountering the ìstrangenessî of ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780691014890ISBN:0691014892
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1990-12-01
ISBN-13:9780691014890ISBN:0691014892
Description: Very Good. SCARCE SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. ONLY LIGHT WEAR TO COVER, WITH SOME FADING ON SPINE. LOC: PHILIPPI. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780691014890ISBN:0691014892
Description: 8vo, paperback. Vg+ condition. Remainder mark on top text-block edge; contents bright, crisp & clean, unread, covers glossy. xxxviii, 95 p. Translation of: Engishiki norito. Orig. publ. by the Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University, Tokyo, 1959. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780691014890ISBN:0691014892
Description: Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Very little or no wear, the spine is sunned. Quite clean. 'This volume contains the only available English translation of the prayers of Japan's indigenous religious tradition, Shinto. ' 95 pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIV PR
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780691014890ISBN:0691014892
Description: New. This volume presents the only English translation of the prayers of Japan's indigenous religious tradition, Shinto. These prayers, norito, are works of religious literature that are basic to our understanding of Japanese religious history. Locating D... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN-13:9780691014890ISBN:0691014892
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN-13:9780691014890ISBN:0691014892
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