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Discourses of purity in transcultural perspective (300-1600)
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ISBN: 9004289747 9004289755 9789004289758 9789004289741 Year: 2015 Publisher: Leiden : Brill,

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This volume comprises fifteen articles on the differing functions that purity, impurity, pollution and related categories could fulfil in Asian and European religions and societies of the 3rd to 17th century c.E. They focus processes of religious demarcation and transfer.


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Religion, power, and the rise of Shinto in early modern Japan
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ISBN: 9781350181069 9781350181083 Year: 2021 Publisher: London : Bloomsbury,

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"This book sheds new light on the relationship between religion and state in early modern Japan, and demonstrates the growing awareness of Shinto in both the political and the intellectual elite of Tokugawa Japan, even though Buddhism remained the privileged means of stately religious control. The first part analyses how the Tokugawa government aimed to control the populace via Buddhism and at the same time submitted Buddhism to the sacralization of the Tokugawa dynasty. The second part focuses on the religious protests throughout the entire period, with chapters on the suppression of Christians, heterodox Buddhist sects, and unwanted folk practitioners. The third part tackles the question of why early Tokugawa Confucianism was particularly interested in 'Shinto' as an alternative to Buddhism and what 'Shinto' actually meant from a Confucian stance. The final part of the book explores attempts to curtail the institutional power of Buddhism by reforming Shinto shrines, an important step in the so called ?Shintoization of shrines? including the development of a self-contained Shinto clergy." Introduction: Tokugawa Religious Orthopraxy and the Phenomenon of Domain Shinto, Bernhard Scheid -- Part 1: Tokugawa Orthopraxy -- 1. Anti-Christian Temple Certification ( terauke ) in Early Modern Japan: Establishment, Practice, and Challenges, Nam-lin Hur (University of British Columbia, Canada) -- 2. Ieyasu's Posthumous Title and the Tokugawa Discourse on ?Divine Country," Sonehara Satoshi (Tohoku University, Japan) -- Part 2: Unwanted Religious Groups -- 3. Anti-Christian Measures and Religious Institutions in the Nagasaki Port City in the Early Edo Period (1614-1644), Carla Tronu (University of Kyoto, Japan) -- 4. When the Lotus went Underground: the Nichiren Buddhist Fujufuse Movement and its Early Modern Persecution, Jacqueline I. Stone (Princeton University, USA) -- 5. 'Deviant Practices' and 'Strange Acts': Late Tokugawa Judicial Perspectives on Heteropraxy, Kate Wildman Nakai (Sophia University, Japan) -- Part 3: Intellectual Challenges --

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