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Politics and Religion in Modern Japan

Red Sun, White Lotus

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  • © 2011

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  1. Roy Starrs

    1. University of Otago, New Zealand

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction: Politics and Religion in Japan

    • Roy Starrs
    Pages 1-27

  3. Ritual, Purity, and Power: Rethinking Shinto in Restoration Japan

    • Zhong Yijiang
    Pages 28-53

  4. The Mikado’s August Body: ‘Divinity’ and ‘Corporeality’ of the Meiji Emperor and the Ideological Construction of Imperial Rule

    • Kyu Hyun Kim
    Pages 54-83

  5. Does Shinto History ‘Begin at Kuroda’? On the Historical Continuities of Political Shinto

    • Klaus Antoni
    Pages 84-103

  6. Sada Kaiseki: An Alternative Discourse on Buddhism, Modernity, and Nationalism in the Early Meiji Period

    • Rambelli Fabio
    Pages 104-142

  7. Carry the Buddha out into the Street! A Sliver of Buddhist Resistance to Japanese Militarism

    • Brian Daizen Victoria
    Pages 143-161

  8. The Atmosphere of Conversion in Interwar Japan

    • Tansman Alan
    Pages 162-184

  9. A Naked Public Square? Religion and Politics in Imperial Japan

    • Kevin M. Doak
    Pages 185-215

  10. ‘The Gakkai is Faith; the Kōmeitō is Action’: Sōka Gakkai and ‘Buddhist Politics’

    • Baffelli Erica
    Pages 216-239

  11. From Mishima to Aum: Religio-political Violence in Late Twentieth-Century Japan

    • Roy Starrs
    Pages 240-277

  12. Voices of Rage: Six Paths to the Problem of Yasukuni

    • Breen John
    Pages 278-304

  13. Afterword: A Comparative Glance at Politics and Religion in Modern Japan

    • Duara Prasenjit
    Pages 305-313

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 315-331
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Written by leading scholars in the field, this book provides new insights, based on original research, into the full spectrum of modern Japanese political-religious activity: from the prewar uses of Shinto in shaping the modern imperial nation-state to the postwar 'new religions' that have challenged the power of the political establishment.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Otago, New Zealand

    Roy Starrs

About the editor

KLAUS ANTONI Chair for Japanese Cultural Studies, Institute for Japanese Studies, Tübingen University, Germany ERICA BAFFELLI Lecturer in Asian Religions, the University of Otago, New Zealand JOHN BREEN Professor at Nichibunken International Research Centre for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan KEVIN DOAK Nippon Foundation Endowed Chair in Japanese Studies, Georgetown University, USA PRASENJIT DUARA Raffles Professor of Humanities and Director of Research, the National University of Singapore ROGER GRIFFIN Professor in Modern History Oxford Brookes University, UK KYU JYUN KIM History, University of California, Davis, USA FABIO RAMBELLI Teacher in Japanese Religion, the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA ROY STARRS Lecturer in Japanese and Asian Studies, the University of Otago, New Zealand ALAN TANSMAN Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley, USA BRIAN VICTORIA Professor of Japanese Studies, Antioch University, Ohio, USA YIJANG ZHONG Ph.D. Candidate, the University of Chicago, USA.

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