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The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan : The Vanquished Gods of Izumo
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ISBN: 9781350066540 9781474271080 1474271081 1350066540 Year: 2018 Publisher: London Bloomsbury Academic

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"Yijiang Zhong analyses the formation of Shinto as a complex and diverse religious tradition in early modern Japan, 1600-1868. Highlighting the role of the god Okuninushi and the mythology centered on the Izumo Shrine in western Japan as part of this process, he shows how and why this god came to be ignored in State Shinto in the modern period. In doing so, Zhong moves away from the traditional understanding of Shinto history as something completely internal to the nation of Japan, and instead situates the formation of Shinto within a larger geopolitical context involving intellectual and political developments in the East Asian region and the role of western colonial expansion. The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan draws extensively on primary source materials in Japan, many of which were only made available to the public less than a decade ago and have not yet been studied. Source materials analysed include shrine records and object materials, contemporary written texts, official materials from the national and provincial levels, and a broad range of visual sources based on contemporary prints, drawings, photographs and material culture"--


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Kokugaku in Meiji-period Japan : the modern transformation of 'national learning' and the formation of scholarly societies
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ISBN: 9789004235304 9789004236332 Year: 2013 Publisher: Leiden Global Oriental

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Kokugaku in Meiji-period Japan offers a new perspective on scholarly networks and the foundations of modern Japan. Utilizing never explored original sources and with a unique focus on the persons involved, Michael Wachutka elucidates how kokugaku as a cornucopia of traditional knowledge played an important role in raising a new generation of truly national citizens. Commonly perceived as a purely premodern Edo-period phenomenon, 'national learning' counterbalanced an overly Westernization of society in the process of nation building and identity formation. In addition to kokugaku activities in religious administration and higher education, Wachutka provides a compelling account of the organization and endeavour of three successive academic societies whose most prominent members served as junction of kokugaku's intellectual network in Meiji Japan. -- Publisher.


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Politics and religion in modern Japan : red sun, white lotus
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ISBN: 9780230240735 9780230336681 Year: 2011 Publisher: London Palgrave Macmillan

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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.

Rearranging the landscape of the gods : the politics of a pilgrimage site in Japan, 1573-1912
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ISBN: 0226794202 0226794210 9780226794211 9780226794204 Year: 2005 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.) : University of Chicago press,

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When people create new societies, economies, and nations--both now and in the past--they create gods, rituals, and miracles to support them. Even what seem to be some of the most timeless and sacred sites in the world have been shaped, reshaped, and reinterpreted by countless people to produce oases of peace and nature today. Using miracle tales, votive plaques, diaries, and newspapers, Sarah Thal traces such changes at one of the most popular Japanese pilgrimage sites of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the shrine of Konpira on the island of Shikoku. This rich and fascinating history explores how people from all walks of life gave shape to the gods, shrines, and rituals so often attributed to ancient, indigenous Japan. Thal shows how worshippers and priests, rulers and entrepreneurs, repeatedly rebuilt and reinterpreted Konpira to reflect their needs and aspirations in a changing world--and how, in doing so, they helped shape the structures of the modern state, economy, and society in turn. 'Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods' will be welcomed by all scholars of Japanese history and by students of religion interested in the construction of modernity.


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Religious discourse in modern Japan : religion, state, and Shintō
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ISBN: 9789004272613 9004272615 9004272674 9789004272675 9004272682 Year: 2014 Publisher: Brill

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Religious Discourse in Modern Japan explores the introduction of the Western concept of “religion” to Japan in the modern era, and the emergence of discourse on Shinto, philosophy, and Buddhism. Taking Anesaki’s founding of religious studies ( shukyogaku ) at Tokyo Imperial University as a pivot, Isomae examines the evolution of this academic discipline in the changing context of social conditions from the Meiji era through the present. Special attention is given to the development of Shinto studies/history of Shinto, and the problems of State Shinto and the emperor system are described in relation to the nature of the concept of religion. Isomae also explains how the discourse of religious studies developed in connection with secular discourses on literature and history, including Marxism.

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Shinto --- Shinto and state --- Religion --- Shinto et Etat --- History --- Study and teaching --- Histoire --- Etude et enseignement --- Japan --- Japon --- J1719 --- J1709 --- J1700.70 --- J1942 --- J1970.70 --- Japan: Religion in general -- religion and state --- Japan: Religion in general -- theory, methodology and philosophy --- Japan: Religion in general -- history -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan: Religion -- Shintō -- relation with politics and state, Shintō as national polity (kokutai) --- Japan: Religion -- Shintō -- history -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Religion. --- Religionswissenschaft. --- Schintoismus. --- Buddhismus. --- Study and teaching. --- 1868-1999. --- Japan. --- J1910.70 --- J1917.70 --- Japan: Religion -- Shintō -- relations -- State, state Shintō --- Shintō --- Shintō et Etat --- Religion and state --- Religions --- al-Yābān --- Giappone --- Government of Japan --- Iapōnia --- I︠A︡ponii︠a︡ --- Japam --- Japani --- Japão --- Japonia --- Japonsko --- Japonya --- Jih-pen --- Mư̄ang Yīpun --- Nihon --- Nihon-koku --- Nihonkoku --- Nippon --- Nippon-koku --- Nipponkoku --- Prathēt Yīpun --- Riben --- State of Japan --- Yābān --- Yapan --- Yīpun --- Zhāpān --- Япония --- اليابان --- يابان --- 日本 --- 日本国 --- Philosophy of religion --- Jepun --- Yapon --- Yapon Ulus --- I︠A︡pon --- Япон --- I︠A︡pon Uls --- Япон Улс


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Shintō and the state, 1868 - 1988.
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ISBN: 0691020523 0691073481 9780691073484 Year: 1991 Publisher: Princeton Princeton university press

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Helen Hardacre, a leading scholar of religious life in modern Japan, examines the Japanese state's involvement in and manipulation of shinto from the Meiji Restoration to the present. Nowhere else in modern history do we find so pronounced an example of government sponsorship of a religion as in Japan's support of shinto. How did that sponsorship come about and how was it maintained? How was it dismantled after World War II? What attempts are being made today to reconstruct it? In answering these questions, Hardacre shows why State shinto symbols, such as the Yasukuni Shrine and its prefectural branches, are still the focus for bitter struggles over who will have the right to articulate their significance. Where previous studies have emphasized the state bureaucracy responsible for the administration of shinto, Hardacre goes to the periphery of Japanese society. She demonstrates that leaders and adherents of popular religious movements, independent religious entrepreneurs, women seeking to raise the prestige of their households, and men with political ambitions all found an association with shinto useful for self-promotion; local-level civil administrations and parish organizations have consistently patronized shinto as a way to raise the prospects of provincial communities. A conduit for access to the prestige of the state, shinto has increased not only the power of the center of society over the periphery but also the power of the periphery over the center.

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299.52 --- 322 <520> --- J1917.70 --- J1910.70 --- J1910.80 --- Shinto --- -Shinto --- -Shinto and state --- State and Shinto --- State, The --- 299.52 Godsdiensten van Japan. Shintoisme --- Godsdiensten van Japan. Shintoisme --- Religions --- 322 <520> Godsdienstige tolerantie. Godsdienstpolitiek--Japan --- Godsdienstige tolerantie. Godsdienstpolitiek--Japan --- Japan: Religion -- Shintō -- relations -- State, state Shintō --- Japan: Religion -- Shintō -- history -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan: Religion -- Shintō -- history -- Gendai, modern (1926- ), Shōwa, 20th century --- History --- -History --- -299.52 --- Shinto et Etat --- Sjinto en Staat --- Shinto and state. --- S35/1000 --- #SML: De Weirdt --- Japan--Religion --- -Shinto and state. --- Shinto -- History -- 1945 --- -Shinto -- History -- 1868-1945. --- Shinto -- History -- 1945-. --- Shinto -- History -- 1868-1945. --- Shinto and state --- 1868-1945 --- 1945 --- Allied Occupation. --- Buddhism. --- Christianity. --- Department of Divinity. --- Great Promulgation Campaign. --- Hirata Atsutane. --- Home Ministry. --- Imperial Household Ministry. --- Ise Grand Shrines. --- Iwakura Tomomi. --- Izumo Shrine. --- Jingūkyō. --- Kigensetsu. --- Meiji Restoration. --- Ministry of Education. --- Nakasone Yasuhiro. --- National Learning. --- Pantheon Dispute. --- Tanaka Yoritsune. --- Tsuwano Domain. --- confraternities. --- doctrine. --- emperor. --- festival. --- funerals. --- preaching. --- sacerdotal lineages. --- shrines. --- vestments. --- village assemblies. --- women ministers. --- Ōkuni Takamasa. --- -Staat --- Religion --- Shintoismus. --- Staat. --- Schintoismus. --- Religion. --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Theology --- Staat --- Japan. --- al-Yābān --- Giappone --- Government of Japan --- Iapōnia --- I︠A︡ponii︠a︡ --- Japam --- Japani --- Japão --- Japon --- Japonia --- Japonsko --- Japonya --- Jih-pen --- Mư̄ang Yīpun --- Nihon --- Nihon-koku --- Nihonkoku --- Nippon --- Nippon-koku --- Nipponkoku --- Prathēt Yīpun --- Riben --- State of Japan --- Yābān --- Yapan --- Yīpun --- Zhāpān --- Япония --- اليابان --- يابان --- 日本 --- 日本国 --- Shinto - History - 1868-1945. --- Shinto - History - 1945 --- Jepun --- Yapon --- Yapon Ulus --- I︠A︡pon --- Япон --- I︠A︡pon Uls --- Япон Улс --- Pseudoreligion --- Schintoismus --- Shintoismus --- Japan --- Land --- Staatswesen --- Staaten --- Politisches System --- Fiskus --- Empire du Japon --- Zen-Nihon --- Zenkoku --- Dainihon --- Dainippon --- Japão --- Japaner --- -Japan. --- -History -

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