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The great achievement of Masaharu Anesaki's work is to show how Shinto, Buddhism, and Confucianism were molded and combined by the circumstances of the times and the people into a composite whole, so that the Japanese of today are, consciously or unconsciously, followers of a hybrid of several religious traditions.
History of Japanese Religion: With Special Reference to the Social and Moral Life of the Nation FROM THE PUBLISHER
The great achievement of Masaharu Anesaki´s work is to show how Shinto, Buddhism, and Confucianism were molded and combined by the circumstances of the times and the people into a composite whole, so that the Japanese of today are, consciously or unconsciously, followers of a hybrid of several religious traditions.
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The great achievement of Masaharu Anesaki´s work is to show how Shinto, Buddhism, and Confucianism were molded and combined by the circumstances of the times and the people into a composite whole, so that the Japanese of today are, consciously or unconsciously, followers of a hybrid of several religious traditions.
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