Celebrity gods
Subtitle: new religions, media, and authority in occupied Japan
By: Benjamin Dorman
Series: Nanzan library of Asian religion and culture; Nanzan library of Asian religion and culture
Publisher: University of Hawaiʻi Press; University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780824836214
Subjects: Mass media in religion; Religion; Religion and state; Mass media; Religious aspects; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-287) and index.
Table of contents: title: Renmonkyō and the Meiji press; title: Deguchi Onisaburō as a prewar model; title: The birth of two celebrity gods; title: Before Jikōson; title: Building a "kingdom of god"; title: Bureaucracy, religion, and the press under occupation; title: Jikōson and Jiu; title: Kitamura Sayo; title: New religions and critics in the immediate postwar press.