Shimaji Mokurai and the Reconception of Religion and the Secular in Modern Japan / / Hans Martin Krämer.
Religion is at the heart of such ongoing political debates in Japan as the constitutionality of official government visits to Yasukuni Shrine, yet the very categories that frame these debates, namely religion and the secular, entered the Japanese language less than 150 years ago. To think of religio...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Categorizing Religion in Early Modern Japan
- Chapter 2: Early Meiji Buddhism and the Shintoist Challenge
- Chapter 3: From "Sectarian Teaching" to "Religion"
- Chapter 4: Western Sources of Knowledge
- Chapter 5: The Long History of Religion's Opposites: "The Secular" and "Secularization"
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Shimaji Mokurai, "Critique of the Three Standards of Instruction" (1872)
- Notes
- Character Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index