Beyond the mushroom cloud
Subtitle: commemoration, religion, and responsibility after Hiroshima
By: Yuki Miyamoto
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Bordering religions
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780823240500; 9780823240517
Subjects: Collective memory; Atomic bomb victims; Moral and ethical aspects; Peace movements; Memorials; Nuclear warfare; Religious life and customs; Religious life; Responsibility; History; Case studies
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Ethics of Commemoration; title: pt. 1. Commemoration; title: Toward a Community of Memory; title: Dialogue with the Dead : The Yasukuni Shinto Shrine and Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park; title: pt. 2. Religious Interpretations; title: Beyond Good and Evil : Koji Shigenobu and the True Pure Land   Understanding of the Atomic Bombing; title: Sacrificial Lambs : Nagai Takashi and the Roman Catholic Interpretation of the Bombing; title: pt. 3. Responsibility; title: Women in Atomic Bomb Narratives : Hagiography, Alterity, and Non-Nomological Ethics; title: Postscript: After Too Many Mushroom Clouds; title: Afterword.