Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 258 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9780824890162
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0824890167
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9780824892333
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082489233X
Series Statement:
Nanzan Library of Asian religion and culture
Content:
"Recent decades have seen a rise in religious nationalism and fundamentalism around the world. This book focuses attention on a Japanese expression of fundamentalism and neonationalism based on Shinto and symbolically centered on Yasukuni Shrine. The Shinto tradition is often seen as a very tolerant expression of religion that allows for diverse forms of belief and practice, but when closely tied to the interests of the state or political power it can be used to legitimize coercion in public life and institutions. This became particularly apparent in wartime Japan and has reappeared in the postwar period in what has been identified as expression of "Yasukuni fundamentalism," a movement that seeks to revive and restore the social order and values expressed in the Emperor-centered form of Shinto that existed before the end of the Second World War. Yasukuni fundamentalists not only want to recover and revitalize the tradition disestablished by the Allied Occupation of Japan, but also seek to impose it on the larger public through the re-nationalization of Yasukuni Shrine, revision of the postwar Constitution, and reform of the public school system. This book examines the growth of this neonationalist movement in post-disaster Japan, the social conflict generated by their political agenda, and the various forms of opposition by religious leaders and groups, as well as public intellectuals, to the reappearance of coercion the public sphere"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Imperialist Secularization: The Restructuring of Religion and Society in Occupied Japan -- Shinto Responses to the Occupation: Privatization and Deprivatization -- Disasters and Social Crisis: The Mobilization of a Restoration Movement -- The Politics of Yasukuni Shrine: Official Visits and Postwar Enshrinements -- Patriotic Education: Civic Duties versus Religious Rights -- Promoting Constitutional Revision: The Normalization of Non-Religious Shinto.
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780824889012
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0824889010
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Mullins, Mark Yasukuni fundamentalism Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2021 ISBN 9780824889012
Language:
English
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