On Shikinen Sengu, the Shinto Construction Ritual and the Environmental Psyche
Fumihiko Matsumoto
In Religion, Culture, and Ecological Flourishing in Asian Contexts. Edited by Anthony Le Duc. Bangkok: ARC, 2025
pp. 138–148
DOI: 10.59865/prajn.2025.9
This is an open access article under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
This article was previously published in the journal Prajñā Vihāra 25, no. 2 (July-December 2025):58-73.
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