Title: Beyond the mushroom cloud : commemoration, religion, and responsibility after Hiroshima /
Authors: Miyamoto, Yuki.
Publisher: Fordham University Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Responsibility Social aspects Case studies.; Responsibility Social aspects Japan Hiroshima-shi.; Atomic bomb victims Religious life Japan Hiroshima-shi.; Collective memory Japan Hiroshima-shi.; Memorials Japan Hiroshima-shi.; Peace movements Japan Hiroshima-shi.; Collective memory Case studies.; Nuclear warfare Moral and ethical aspects; Hiroshima-shi (Japan) History Moral and ethical aspects.; Hiroshima-shi (Japan) Religious life and customs.
Abstract: This monograph explores the ethics and religious sensibilities of a group of the hibakusha (survivors) of 1945's atomic bombings. To this end, the methodology Miyamoto employs is moral hermeneutics, interpreting testimonies, public speeches, and films as texts, with interlocutors such as Avishai Margalit (philosopher), Sueki Fumihiko (Buddhist philosopher), Nagai Takashi (lay Catholic thinker), and Shinran (the founder of True Pure Land Buddhism). --from publisher description.
Contents: Introduction: The Ethics of Commemoration -- pt. 1. Commemoration -- Toward a Community of Memory -- Dialogue with the Dead : The Yasukuni Shinto Shrine and Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park -- pt. 2. Religious Interpretations -- Beyond Good and Evil : Koji Shigenobu and the True Pure Land Understanding of the Atomic Bombing -- Sacrificial Lambs : Nagai Takashi and the Roman Catholic Interpretation of the Bombing -- pt. 3. Responsibility -- Women in Atomic Bomb Narratives : Hagiography, Alterity, and Non-Nomological Ethics -- Postscript: After Too Many Mushroom Clouds -- Afterword.