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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Starrs, Roy, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and state--Japan.

Religion and state.

Japan.

Religion and politics--Japan.

Religion and politics.

Japan--Politics and government--1945-.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xvi, 331 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780230240735

0230240739

OCLC:

721884000