Tama in Japanese Myth: A Hermeneutical Study of Ancient Japanese Divinity - Couverture rigide

Iwasawa, Tomoko

 
9780761855248: Tama in Japanese Myth: A Hermeneutical Study of Ancient Japanese Divinity
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ISBN 10 : 0761855246 ISBN 13 : 9780761855248
Editeur : University Press of America, 2011

Synopsis

Tama in Japanese Myth attempts to elucidate Japanese religious experiences by presenting a new interpretation of the oldest existing text of Japanese myth, the Kojiki. Informed by phenomenological hermeneutics, Iwasawa shows that the concept of tama lies at the core of Japanese religious experiences. Tama is often compared to spirit and soul in Western philosophy and religion and especially to the German concept of Geist. Tama develops in ways that do not assume a dichotomy between the ideational and the sensible, which is precisely the dichotomy informing Western theism and the Platonic tradition of metaphysics. Iwasawa argues that the Western concept of God, far from explaining all possible connections between the human and the divine, is less than satisfactory for analyzing Japanese religious experiences. Iwasawa proceeds by examining the Japanese notion of tama as an inquiry into the origin of values wholly unaffected by the Western idea of a moral God.

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À propos de l'auteur

Tomoko Iwasawa is associate professor of comparative religions at Reitaku University, Japan. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy of religion from Boston University. Her publications include Jaspers' "Schuldfrage" and Hiroshima: Does the Concept of Guilt Exist for Japanese Religious Consciousness? (2008)and On the Concept of Defilement: A Comparative Study of Paul Ricoeur's "Symbolism of Evil" and Japanese Myth (2009). She is an executive board member of International Shinto Foundation.

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Éditeur
University Press of America
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0761855246
ISBN 13 
9780761855248
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
218
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780761855187: Tama in Japanese Myth: A Hermeneutical Study of Ancient Japanese Divinity

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ISBN 10 :  0761855181 ISBN 13 :  9780761855187
Editeur : University Press of America, 2011
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