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Beyond the mushroom cloud : commemoration, religion, and responsibility after Hiroshima / Yuki Miyamoto.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miyamoto, Yuki.
- Series:
- Bordering Religions: Concepts, Conflicts, and Conversations
- Bordering religions : concepts, conflicts, and conversations
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Atomic bomb victims--Religious life--Japan--Hiroshima-shi.
- Atomic bomb victims.
- Collective memory--Case studies.
- Collective memory.
- Collective memory--Japan--Hiroshima-shi.
- Memorials--Japan--Hiroshima-shi.
- Memorials.
- Nuclear warfare--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Nuclear warfare.
- Peace movements--Japan--Hiroshima-shi.
- Peace movements.
- Responsibility--Social aspects--Case studies.
- Responsibility.
- Responsibility--Social aspects--Japan--Hiroshima-shi.
- Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Hiroshima-shi (Japan).
- Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--Religious life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (251 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How should the horror of the atom bomb be remembered? In what ways might we remember so that the terrible experience of its use might be transformed into hope for a universal community of peace? In a fascinating case study in comparative religion, this book traces the struggle of the hibakusha, the survivors of the 1945 bombings, to make sense of their experiences through an ethic of Gnot retaliation, but reconciliation.G The predominant religious group in Hiroshima was True Pure Land Buddhism. From this sect emerged an account of the bombings in terms of karma, the misdeeds of humansGin the c
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Ethics of Commemoration
- pt. 1. Commemoration
- Toward a Community of Memory
- Dialogue with the Dead : The Yasukuni Shinto Shrine and Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
- pt. 2. Religious Interpretations
- Beyond Good and Evil : Koji Shigenobu and the True Pure Land Understanding of the Atomic Bombing
- Sacrificial Lambs : Nagai Takashi and the Roman Catholic Interpretation of the Bombing
- pt. 3. Responsibility
- Women in Atomic Bomb Narratives : Hagiography, Alterity, and Non-Nomological Ethics
- Postscript: After Too Many Mushroom Clouds
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-225) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-4054-1
- 0-8232-4931-X
- OCLC:
- 923763718
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