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100			_a Faure, Bernard _eAuthor _978291
245			_aThe Fluid Pantheon: _bGods of Medieval Japan
250			_aVolume 1
260			_aHonolulu: _b University of Hawaiʻi Press, _c2016
300			_a482 pages; _c 26 cm
520			_aWritten by one of the leading scholars of Japanese religion, The Fluid Pantheon is the first installment of a multivolume project that promises to be a milestone in our understanding of the mythico-ritual system of esoteric Buddhism―specifically the nature and roles of deities in the religious world of medieval Japan and beyond. Bernard Faure introduces readers to medieval Japanese religiosity and shows the centrality of the gods in religious discourse and ritual; in doing so he moves away from the usual textual, historical, and sociological approaches that constitute the “method” of current religious studies. The approach considers the gods (including buddhas and demons) as meaningful and powerful interlocutors and not merely as cyphers for social groups or projections of the human mind. Throughout he engages insights drawn from structuralism, post-structuralism, and Actor-network theory to retrieve the “implicit pantheon” (as opposed to the “explicit orthodox pantheon”) of esoteric Japanese Buddhism (Mikkyō).
650			_a Buddhist gods _zJapan _978292
650			_a Buddhism _xHistory _y1185-1600. _zJapan _978293
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887			_28 _aPapia Akter
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