Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan : : Buddhism and Its Persecution / / James Edward Ketelaar.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Ketelaar, James Edward,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (299 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Preface -- CHAPTER ONE The Making of a Heresy: Anti-Buddhist Thought in Tokugawa Japan -- CHAPTER TWO Of Heretics and Martyrs: Anti-Buddhist Policies and the Meiji Restoration -- CHAPTER THREE Rites, Rule, and Religion: Construction and Destruction of a National Doctrine -- CHAPTER FOUR The Reconvening of Babel: Eastern Buddhism and the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions -- CHAPTER FIVE The Making of a History: Buddhism and Historicism in Meiji Japan -- CONCLUSION -- Glossary -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index