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  • Pilgrimage

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ian Reader ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Pilgrimage is found in most religious cultures, with large numbers of sites - from globally renowned places to regional shrines - flourishing historically and in the modern day. Pilgrimage centres around the world, including Mecca in Saudi Arabia, Guadalupe in Mexico, Lourdes in France, Santiago de Compostela in Spain, Haridwar in India, and Shikoku in Japan, attract millions of pilgrims annually, ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • Shinto - Simple Guides

    by Ian Reader, Simple Guides ...
    Series series Simple Guides
    This book will help you to:Appreciate the significance of Japan's own religion in everyday life.To become familiar with the key traditions and festivals (matsuri) of the Shinto year.To understand what you will see at Shinto shrines and in Shinto ritual.To gain insights into the controversies surrounding Shinto, politics, and nationalism.Access the world's religions with Simple Guides: Religion a s ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Pilgrims Until We Die

    Unending Pilgrimage in Shikoku

    by Ian Reader, John Shultz ...
    The Shikoku pilgrimage, a 1400 kilometre, eighty-eight temple circuit around Japan's fourth largest island, takes around forty days by foot, or one week by car. Historically, Buddhist ascetics walked it without ceasing, creating a tradition of unending pilgrimage that continues in the present era, both by pilgrims on foot and by others in cars. Some spend decades walking the pilgrimage, while ... Read more

    $37.19 CAD

  • Pilgrimage

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ian Reader ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Pilgrimage is found in most religious cultures, with large numbers of sites - from globally renowned places to regional shrines - flourishing historically and in the modern day. Pilgrimage centres around the world, including Mecca in Saudi Arabia, Guadalupe in Mexico, Lourdes in France, Santiago de Compostela in Spain, Haridwar in India, and Shikoku in Japan, attract millions of pilgrims annually, ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • Religious Violence in Contemporary Japan

    The Case of Aum Shinrikyo

    by Ian Reader ...
    The Tokyo subway attack in March 1995 was just one of a series of criminal activities including murder, kidnapping, extortion, and the illegal manufacture of arms and drugs carried out by the Japanese new religious movement Aum Shinrikyo, under the guidance of its leader Asahara Shoko. Reader looks at Aum's claims about itself and asks, why did a religious movement ostensibly focussed on yoga, ... Read more

    $152.52 CAD

  • Religion and Tourism in Japan

    Intersections, Images, Policies and Problems

    by Ian Reader ...
    In this study, Ian Reader presents new insights into the relationship between religion and tourism more generally and into the contemporary religious situation in Japan. He counteracts scholarship that claims tourism increases religious activity, shows that tourism is a factor in increasing secularization in Japan and draws attention to the role of the state in such contexts.Although the Japanese ... Read more

    $42.19 CAD

  • On Being Nonreligious in Contemporary Japan

    Decline, Antipathy, and Aversion to Institutions

    by Ian Reader, Clark Chilson ...
    Challenging the notion of the nonreligious in Japan being religious through tradition and institution, this book demonstrates how negativity and antipathy for religion relate to religious decline in Japan today. Why do most Japanese say they are 'nonreligious' (mushukyo)? Since the 1990s, scholars have answered this key question for understanding religion in contemporary Japan as follows: although ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Pilgrimage in the Marketplace

    by Ian Reader ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Pilgrimage, Religious Travel and Tourism
    The study of pilgrimage often centres itself around miracles and spontaneous populist activities. While some of these activities and stories may play an important role in the emergence of potential pilgrimage sites and in helping create wider interest in them, this book demonstrates that the dynamics of the marketplace, including marketing and promotional activities by priests and secular interest ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • What We Can Know

    A Novel

    by Ian McEwan ...
    **BLACKWELL’S BOOK OF THE YEAR • LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • One of Barack Obama’s Favourite Books of 2025 • The Atlantic’s Top 10 • The Standard’s Best 2025 Titles to Buy for Book Lovers • Named a Best Book of 2025 by The Globe and Mail • New York Times • The Washington Post • The New Yorker • NPR • Barnes & Noble • Kirkus ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • She Comes First

    The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman

    by Ian Kerner ...
    Series Book 3 - Kerner
    "She Comes First is quite simply the best guide to oral sex out there." —AskMen.comThe essential guidebook to oral sex, She Comes First offers a radical new philosophy for pleasuring womenAs women everywhere will attest, men are "ill-cliterate." But in the pages of this must-read sex guide, the mystery of female satisfaction is solved, and the tongue is proven mightier than the sword. According to ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Shinto, Simple Guides

    by Ian Reader ...
    Narrated by Steven Crossley ...
    Series series Simple Guides

    Unabridged

    3 hours 22 min

    This book will help you appreciate the significance of Japan's own religion in everyday life, recognize the key traditions and festivals of the Shinto year, understand what you will see at Shinto shrines and in Shinto rituals, and gain insights into the controversies surrounding Shinto politics and nationalism. Access the world's religions through this entry in this series of simple guides that ... Read more

    $34.34 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Atonement

    by Ian McEwan ...
    From the Booker Prize winning author of Amsterdam, a brilliant new novel.On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, son of the Tallis’s cleaning lady, whose education has been subsidized by Cecilia’s and Briony’s father, and ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks