DOC Jihad in Premodern Sufi Writings by Harry S Neale in History

Description

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 presents a more dynamic and variegated religious world; one in which the deities' Buddhist originals and local traces did not constitute one-to-one associations; but complex combinations of multiple deities based on semiotic operations; doctrines; myths; and legends. The book's essays; all based on specific case studies; discuss the honji suijaku paradigm from a number of different perspectives; always integrating historical and doctrinal analysis with interpretive insights.