This pocket-sized paperback is ideal for travellers, students and spiritual seekers. Simple Guides Shinto will help you to appreciate the cultural significance of Shinto, understand what goes on in Shinto Shrines and in Shinto rituals, recognize the key traditions and festivals of the Shinto year. The guide will also help you to gain insight into t

Ian Reader has been teaching and researching the religions of Japan for many years. His PhD on Japanese Buddhism was gained at the University of Leeds in 1983, after which he and his wife Dorothy lived and worked in Japan for almost six years. Since 1989 he has been a member of the Scottish Centre for Japanese Studies at the University of Stirling, Scotland. He also spent a year as a Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii in 1992-93. For three years from August 1995 he lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Nordic Institute of Asian