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A New Year’s Coincidence?

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Russell McCutcheon
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perryDid you know that January 1st is also the beginning of the new year in Japanese Shinto, marked by celebrating the holiday known as Gantan-sai?

Calendrical coincidence?

Hardly. Continue reading →

Posted in Faculty Blog, Relevance of Humanities, Religion in Culture | Tagged Commodore Perry, Gregorian Calednar, Imperialism, Japan, Meiji Reform, New Year, Shinto, Trade, U.S. Navy | Leave a reply

Studying Religion in Culture

Welcome to the blog of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama. This site -- maintained by the faculty but also involving our students, our alumni, and the graduate teaching assistants who help us in our classes -- discusses the relevance of the study of religion, in particular, and the liberal arts, in general, for understanding both the past and present, by seeing religion as but one element of wider cultural practices.

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