Shintô und die Konzeption des japanischen Nationalwesens kokutai : Der religiöse Traditionalismus in Neuzeit und Moderne Japans / Klaus Antoni.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Antoni, Klaus, author.

Series:

Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 5 Japan ; 8.

Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 5 Japan ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kokutai.

Shinto and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Der religiöse Traditionalismus in Neuzeit und Moderne Japans

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 1998.

Summary:

The subject of this volume is the historical development of shintô and national thought in premodern and modern Japan. After examining the first instances of shintô-confucian syncretism in the early Edo period, the author investigates the function of shintô as a religious system to legitimize political power and explores how during the late Edo period this culminates in the concept of a specific Japanese national polity ( kokutai ). Though the main caesurae in the process of modern Japanese history (e.g. Meiji restoration and the end of the Pacific War in 1945) play a dominant role in this context, the author points out that the main historical, religious and ideological continuities are of much greater importance; The ideas and concepts elaborated by shintô thinkers during the Edo period became reality in modern Japan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Shintô und die Konzeption des japanischen Nationalwesens kokutai : Der religiöse Traditionalismus in Neuzeit und Moderne Japans.

ISBN:

9789004488496

9789004103160

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004488496 DOI

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