Product Description: Journey to the Heart of Aikido presents the teachings of Motomichi Anno Sensei, one of the few remaining direct students of Morihei Ueshiba, the legendary founder of Aikido. After a lifetime of practice and teaching in Japan, the United States, and Europe, Anno Sensei conveys through his teachings Aikido's essential spirit of love, harmony, gratitude, and purification with simple authenticity and eloquence...read more

Product Description: Sacred Space in the Modern City offers new and original perspectives on a number of controversial issues and important questions concerning Japanese pre- and post-war ideology and identity. The author uses Meiji shrine as a lens with which to investigate the nature of the society that created, experienced and reproduced this site...read more

Product Description: En ninguna obra de esta clase encontrará los eventos trascendentales de la historia de las Antiguas Escrituras narrados con tanta exactitud en el tiempo y con tanta evidencia bíblica y fehaciente, fruto del estudio concienzudo y la investigación meticulosa de la palabra de Dios, realizados por el autor...read more

Product Description: A comparative analysis of fire rituals that examines the kinds of adaptations, innovations and guiding principles that led to the creation of the Shinto-Buddhist ritual fire.

Product Description: It was the soaring peaks and deep blue skies of the Himalayas that inspired Carol to set out on an ultimate quest for our inner Light-Essence that she had learned about from the great world-teacher, Shin. In an absorbing account of her travels with two companions in the Himalayan regions of Northern India, followed by some profoundly stirring encounters with Shin, she shares the discovery of spiritual opening that many of us are searching for...read more

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Product Description: To know Japan, one must know Shinto-the country's indigenous religion. Using superb color images of rituals, ceremonies, and sacred architecture, as well as sacred texts, Understanding Shinto offers a fascinating glimpse into this unique culture...read more

Despite its relative simplicity, which is one of its virtues, Shinto is a sophisticated religion with many aspects that deserve study. This comprehensive yet convenient guide to the key terms and names of this tradition will assist researchers, students, and the general reader to gain deeper insight into its nature and workings. Picken identifies the principal historical and mythological names that are central to the Shinto tradition and also demonstrates the relationship of Shinto to Japanese culture as a whole, including the relationship of Shinto to Buddhism, sex, death, ethics, Noh drama, and Folk Religion.Not only are entries included on new religions that have a clear basis in Shinto culture and the new development of Shinto's growing internationalization but leading figures are identified as well as some of the core beliefs of these groups. A large list of research resources is appended in addition to books and articles dealing with Japanese religions in general. Also includes a list of websites and the addresses of organizations that can be contacted for further information.

Product Description: In an candid and informative account, two French jounralists set out to conduct an objective and unbiased study of the Baha'i Faith, an emerging world religion. Through a series of frank and lively interviews, interspersed with personal observations, they examine who the Baha'i's are and what they believe...read more