TY - BOOK AU - Hardacre,Helen TI - Shinto: a history SN - 9780190621711 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - BL2218 .H37 2016 U1 - 299.5/6109 23 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Shinto KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 659-680) and index; Shinto in the ancient period -- The Kami in myth -- The coalescence of early Shinto -- Shinto during the middle and late Heian period, tenth through twelfth centuries -- The esotericization of medieval Shinto -- Medieval Shinto and the arts -- The late medieval period -- Early Edo-period Shinto thought and institutions -- Edo-period shrine life and shrine pilgrimage -- Shinto and revelation -- Shinto and Kokugaku -- Shinto and the Meiji state -- Shinto and imperial Japan -- Shinto from 1945 through 1989 -- Shrine festivals and their changing place in the public sphere -- Heisei Shinto -- Appendix. Shrine funding ER -