Of heretics and martyrs in Meiji Japan : Buddhism and its persecution / James Edward Ketelaar.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Ketelaar, James Edward, 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhism--Japan--History--1868-1945.

Buddhism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 285 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1990]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

How did Buddhism, so prominent in Japanese life for over a thousand years, become the target of severe persecution in the social and political turmoil of the early Meiji era? How did it survive attacks against it and reconstitute itself as an increasingly articulate and coherent belief system and a bastion of the Japanese national heritage? Here James Ketelaar elucidates not only the development of Buddhism in the late nineteenth century but also the strategies of the Meiji state.

Contents:

Chapter 1. The Making of a Heresy: Anti-Buddhist Thought in Tokugawa Japan

Interpreting Persecution: Law of the Buddha, Law of the King

The Language of Persecution: Anti-Buddhist Thought

The Language of Persecution: And History

The Language of Persecution: And National Essence

The Language of Persecution: And Political Economy

Chapter 2. Of Heretics and Martyrs: Anti-Buddhist Policies and the Meiji Restoration

Mito: By Way of Paradigm

Satsuma: Complete Implementation

Complications: Bannings, Banks and Wooden Fish

From Heretics to Martyrs

Chapter 3. Rites, Rule, and Religion: Construction and Destruction of a National Doctrine

Saisei itchi: Unity of Rite and Rule

Seikyo itchi: Unity of Rule and Doctrine

Seikyo bunri: Separation of Rule and Religion

Chapter 4. The Reconvening of Babel: Eastern Buddhism and the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions

The Invitation

Parliamentarian Conceptions of Religion

Constructing the Other

The Champions of Buddhism

Circumambulation of the Globe

Chapter 5. The Making of a History: Buddhism and Historicism in Meiji Japan

Transsectarianism: "Essentials of the Eight Sects"

Transnationalism: Constructing a United Buddhism

Cosmopolitanism: Constructing a Global Buddhism

Buddhist Bibles: Distillation of the Canon.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Chicago) under the title: Of heretics and martyrs. 1987.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691024813

0691024812

OCLC:

1273306804