Politics and religion in modern Japan
Subtitle: red sun, white lotus
By: [edited by] Roy Starrs
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780230240735
Subjects: Politics and government; HISTORY / Social History; Religion and politics; Religion and state; HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; HISTORY / Asia / Japan
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface : the transdisciplinary significance of Red Sun, White Lotus / Roger Griffin; title: Introduction : politics and religion in Japan /   Roy Starrs; title: Ritual, purity and power : rethinking Shinto in restoration Japan / Yijiang Zhong; title: The Mikado's august body : 'divinity' and 'corporeality' of the Meiji emperor and the ideological construction of imperial rule / Kyu Hyun Kim; title: Does Shinto history 'begin at Kuroda'? : on the historical continuities of political Shinto / Klaus Antoni; title: Sada Kaiseki : an alternative discourse on Buddhism, modernity, and nationalism in the early Meiji period / Fabio Rambelli; title: Carry the Buddha out into the street! : a sliver of resistance to Japanese militarism / Brian Daizen Victoria; title: The atmosphere of conversion in interwar Japan / Alan Tansman; title: A naked public square? : religion and politics in imperial Japan / Kevin M. Doak; title: 'The Gakkai is faith, the Komeito is action' : Soka Gakkai and 'Buddhist politics' / Erica Baffelli; title: From Mishima to Aum : religiopolitical violence in late twentieth-century Japan / Roy Starrs; title: Voices of rage : a critical approach to the problem of Yasukuni / John Breen; title: Afterword : a comparative glance at politics and religion in Japan / Prasenjit Duara.