A Path into the Mountains: Shugendo and Mount Togakushi Book by Caleb Swift Carter cf-size-s When it was passed down

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A Path into the Mountains: Shugendo and Mount Togakushi Book by Caleb Swift Carter cf-size-s When it was passed downShugend has been an object of fascination among scholars and the general public, yet its historical development remains an enigma. This book offers a provocative reexamination of the social, economic, and spiritual terrain from which this mountain religious system arose. Caleb Carter traces Shugend through the mountains of Togakushi (Nagano Prefecture), while situating it within the religious landscape of medieval and early modern Japan. His is the