A New History of Shinto.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- List of Illustrations -- Conventions and Abbreviations Used in the Text -- Prologue -- Chapter 1: An Alternative Approach to the History of Shinto -- Conceptualizing Shrine Practice as Shinto -- Meiji and the Formation of Shinto as a State Cult -- Shinto as Folklore -- Religious Shinto Sects -- Many Shintos -- Many Histories -- A Shrine, a Myth, and a Ritual -- Chapter 2: Kami Shrines, Myths, and Rituals in Premodern Times -- Early Shrine Cults -- Jingi Myth -- Jingi Ritual -- The Jingi Cult and Yin-Yang Ritual -- The Jingi Cult and Buddhism -- Shrines in Late Classical and Medieval Japan: From Landowners to Pilgrimage Centers -- The Emergence of "Shinto" -- Yoshida Kanetomo and the Invention of One-and-Only Shinto -- Early Modern State Shinto -- Popular Practices -- The Nativists and their Kami -- Chapter 3: The History of a Shrine: Hie -- Hie in Ancient and Medieval Japan -- The Hie Shrines and Early Modern Japan -- The Hie Shrine and Modern Japan -- Chapter 4: The History of a Myth: The Sun-Goddess and the Rock-Cave -- The Sun-Goddess and the Rock-Cave -- Origins -- The Rediscovery of Court Myth -- The Way of Poetry -- Buddhist Readings and Ritualizations: The Way of the Gods -- The Rock-Cave Myth as a Performance, and the Way of Noh -- The End of the Medieval World -- The Rock-Cave Myth after Meiji -- Chapter 5: The Daijosai: A "Shinto" Rite of Imperial Accession -- A "Shinto" Rite of Imperial Accession -- Ritual Controversy -- The Daijosai and the Modern Nation-State -- The Daijosai and Enthronement Rites in Premodern Japan -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Issues in Contemporary Shinto -- NAS: Operations and Agendas -- NAS and Beyond -- Shinto and Shrines in the Periphery -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 1 An Alternative Approach to the History of Shinto.

Chapter 2 Kami Shrines, Myths, and Rituals in Premodern Times -- Chapter 3 The History of a Shrine: Hie -- Chapter 4 The History of a Myth: The Sun-Goddess and the Rock-Cave -- Chapter 5 The Daijosai : A "Shinto" Rite of Imperial Accession -- Chapter 6 Issues in Contemporary Shinto -- References -- Index.

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