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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-03 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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Language: en
Pages: 402
Pages: 402
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-03 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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Language: en
Pages: 404
Pages: 404
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-03 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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Language: en
Pages: 323
Pages: 323
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-11 - Publisher: Routledge
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Language: en
Pages: 298
Pages: 298
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-08 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
This book sheds new light on the relationship between religion and state in early modern Japan, and demonstrates the growing awareness of Shinto in both the pol