Politics and religion in modern Japan : red sun, white lotus / [edited by] Roy Starrs.

Other author Starrs, Roy, 1946-
Format Book
Publication InfoHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Descriptionxvi, 331 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentInhaltsverzeichnis
Subjects

Contents Preface : the transdisciplinary significance of Red Sun, White Lotus / Roger Griffin -- Introduction : politics and religion in Japan / Roy Starrs -- Ritual, purity and power : rethinking Shinto in restoration Japan / Yijiang Zhong -- The Mikado's august body : 'divinity' and 'corporeality' of the Meiji emperor and the ideological construction of imperial rule / Kyu Hyun Kim -- Does Shinto history 'begin at Kuroda'? : on the historical continuities of political Shinto / Klaus Antoni -- Sada Kaiseki : an alternative discourse on Buddhism, modernity, and nationalism in the early Meiji period / Fabio Rambelli -- Carry the Buddha out into the street! : a sliver of resistance to Japanese militarism / Brian Daizen Victoria -- The atmosphere of conversion in interwar Japan / Alan Tansman -- A naked public square? : religion and politics in imperial Japan / Kevin M. Doak -- 'The Gakkai is faith, the Komeito is action' : Soka Gakkai and 'Buddhist politics' / Erica Baffelli -- From Mishima to Aum : religiopolitical violence in late twentieth-century Japan / Roy Starrs -- Voices of rage : a critical approach to the problem of Yasukuni / John Breen -- Afterword : a comparative glance at politics and religion in Japan / Prasenjit Duara.
General noteIncludes index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011018668
ISBN9780230240735 (hardback)
ISBN0230240739 (hardback)

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