Practical pursuits : religion, politics, and personal cultivation in nineteenth-century Japan /
The idea that personal cultivation leads to social and material well-being became widespread in late Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868). Practical Pursuits explores theories of personal development that were diffused in the early nineteenth century by a network of religious groups in the Edo (Tokyo) area, a...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2004] |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |