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1. The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion

   Edited by Bernhard Scheid, Mark Teeuwen

   The Japanese Middle Ages were a period when forms of secrecy dominated religious practice. This fascinating collection traces out the secret characteristics and practices in Japanese religion, as well as analyzing the decline of religious esotericism in Japan. The essays in this impressive work...

   Published April 14th 2009 by Routledge
2. Buddhas and Kami in Japan

   Honji Suijaku as a Combinatory Paradigm

   Edited by Fabio Rambelli, Mark Teeuwen

   This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the combinatory tradition that dominated premodern and early modern Japanese religion, known as honji suijaku (originals and their traces). It questions received, simplified accounts of the interactions between Shinto and Japanese Buddhism, and...

   Published November 27th 2002 by Routledge
3. Shinto in History

   Ways of the Kami

   By John Breen, Mark Teeuwen

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Religion

   This is the only book to date offering a critical overview of Shinto from early times to the modern era, and evaluating Shinto's place in Japanese religious culture. In recent years, a few books on medieval Shinto have appeared, but none has attempted to depict the broader picture, to examine...

   Published July 2nd 2000 by Routledge