Kami ways in nationalist territory
Subtitle: Shinto studies in prewar Japan and the west
By: edited by Bernhard Scheid, with Kate Wildman Nakai
Series: Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens -- Nr. 78; Sitzungsberichte / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse -- 840. Band.
Publisher: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Wien
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9783700174004
Subjects: Religion; Shinto; Shinto and politics; History
Notes: Based on the symposium "Shinto Studies and Nationalism" held in Vienna, in September 2007: p. [vii].

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Shinto studies and the nonreligious-shrine doctrine  -- Bernhard Scheid; title: Religion, secularity, and the articulation of the "indigenous" in modernizing Japan  -- Isoma Jun'ichi; title: Nationalism and the humanities in modern Japan : religious, Buddhist, Shinto, and oriental studies  -- Hayashi Makoto; title: Colonial empire and mythology studies : research on Japanese myth in the Early Shōwa period  -- Hirafuji Kikuko; title: Coming to terms with "reverence at shrines" : the 1932 Sophia University-Yasukuni Shrine incident  -- Kate Wildman Nakai; title: Shinto research and administration in the first half of the twentieth century : the case of Miyaji Naokazu  -- Endō Jun; title: The ethnographer, the scholar, and the missionary : French studies on Shinto at the beginning of the twentieth century  -- Jean-Pierre Berthon; title: "A living past as the nation's personality" : Jinnō Shōtōki, Early Shōwa nationalism, and Das Dritte Reich  -- Michael Wachutka; title: In search of lost essence : nationalist projections in German Shinto studies -- Bernhard Scheid.