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| v | “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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