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Religious Life in Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2011

James Thayer Addison
James Thayer Addison
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Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge
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The cult of family ancestors in Japan is of fundamental importance in the religious life of the people. Though less deeply rooted than in China it still remains of vital consequence, for a large majority of the Japanese people continue to observe its rites, and even in 1911 official measures were taken for the purpose of encouraging ancestor worship as essential to the perpetuation of the national ideals.

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Harvard Theological Review , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , October 1925 , pp. 321 - 356
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Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1925

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