Beyond the Mushroom Cloud : : Commemoration, Religion, and Responsibility after Hiroshima / / Yuki Miyamoto.
This monograph explores the ethics and religious sensibilities of a group of the hibakusha (survivors) of 1945’s atomic bombings. Unfortunately, their ethic of “not retaliation, but reconciliation” has not been widely recognized, perhaps obscured by the mushroom cloud—symbol of American weaponry, vi...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Bordering Religions: Concepts, Conflicts, and Conversations
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- A NOTE ON THE TEXT
- Introduction: The Ethics of Commemoration
- Part I Commemoration
- 1 Toward a Community of Memory
- 2 Dialogue with the Dead the Yasukuni Shinto shrine and Hiroshima peace memorial park
- Part II Religious Interpretations
- 3 Beyond Good and Evil: Kōji Shigenobu and the true pure land understanding of the atomic bombing
- 4 Sacrificial Lambs Nagai Takashi and the roman catholic interpretation of the bombing
- Part III Responsibility
- 5 Women in Atomic Bomb Narratives: hagiography, alterity, and non-nomological ethics
- Postscript: After Too Many Mushroom Clouds
- Afterword
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX