Delivered first as the Morse Lectures at Union Theological Seminary, this survey by an American who taught in Japan in the early Meiji years begins with religion before books, including shamanism, fetishism and tree and serpent worship, then follows Shinto myth and ritual, the coming of Buddhism and its sects, and the amalgam of faiths that resulted.
An informed nineteenth-century study, written from the Christian perspective of its missionary-minded author. Download the free EPUB.