For nearly three decades Japanese Culture has garnered high praise as an accurate and well-written introduction to Japanese history and culture. This widely used undergraduate text is now available in a new edition. Thoroughly updated; the fourth edition includes expanded sections on numerous topics; among which are samurai values; Zen Buddhism; the tea ceremony; Confucianism in the Tokugawa period; the story of the forty-seven ronin; Mito scholarship in the early nineteenth century; and mass culture and comics in contemporary times.
#521429 in Books R Scott Hanson 2016-07-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 6.00 x 1.00 x 8.70l; .0 #File Name: 0823271609336 pagesCity of Gods Religious Freedom Immigration and Pluralism in Flushing Queens
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Fascinating Chronicle of Religious PluralismBy Richard BayanAs a history buff and a onetime resident of Queens; I approached this book with the intention of skimming it for its most salient nuggets of information. Instead; I found myself irresistibly drawn into Hanson's fascinating; eminently readable history of religious pluralism in what eventually became one of America's most diverse communities.Scholarly yet readily accessible to the general reader; "City of Gods" traces the religious evolution of Flushing over three-and-a-half centuries -- from the early tensions between Quaker and Dutch Reformed settlers through the conventional Protestant-Catholic-Jewish alliance of the early-to-mid 20th century to the astonishing influx of world religions in the decades that followed.Hanson makes generous use of historical documents while developing his detailed portrait of Flushing as a microcosm of America's emerging pluralistic society. Well worth reading for the richness of its historical narrative as well as its intelligent exploration of the often-bumpy road to genuine religious pluralism.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Fresh ApproachBy Book Guy3441Though I'm not an academic; I found this fascinating story of Flushing; Queens; and it's people as a possible antidote to help defuse some of the hysteria and panic of recent months regarding immigrants and religious diversity.
