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“The saying that ‘the whole
is greater than
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the sum of its
part’ is very appropriate to
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the study of
Japanese religion. We must
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view it as a
unified whole because the
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individual
strands did not exist in isolation,
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either in the
course of history or in the
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dynamics of
religious life. Thorough
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Japanese
history each strands was
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influenced by
one or more of the
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others”(Earhart,
3).
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