The Invention of Religion in Japan:

Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- A Note on Texts and Translations -- Introduction -- The Advent of Religion in Japan -- Obscure Obstacles -- Unlearning Shukyo -- Unlearning "Religion" -- Overview of the Work -- 1. The Marks of Heresy: Organizing Difference in Premodern J...

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Main Author: Josephson-Storm, Jason Ānanda (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2012
Edition:1st ed.
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Online Access:https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1031960
Summary:Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- A Note on Texts and Translations -- Introduction -- The Advent of Religion in Japan -- Obscure Obstacles -- Unlearning Shukyo -- Unlearning "Religion" -- Overview of the Work -- 1. The Marks of Heresy: Organizing Difference in Premodern Japan -- Difference Denied: Hierarchical Inclusion -- Strange Aberrations: Exclusive Similarity -- Hunting Heretics -- 2. Heretical Anthropology -- Contested Silences: Two Versions of the Acts of the Saints -- Demonic Dharma -- Japanese Heretics and Pagans -- 3. The Arrival of Religion -- Negotiating "Religion" -- Taxonomy and Translation: Category in the Webs of Meaning -- Unreasonable Demands -- 4. The Science of the Gods -- Shinto as a "Nonreligion" -- The Way of the Gods -- Celestial Archeology: The Advent of European Science in Japan -- The Science of the Gods: Philology and Cosmology -- Ritual Therapeutics for the Body of the Nation -- The Gods of Science -- From Miraculous Revolution to Mechanistic Cosmos -- 5. Formations of the Shinto Secular -- Secularism Revisited -- Hygienic Modernity and the World of Reality -- Secular Apotheosis -- 6. Taming Demons -- The Demons of Modernity -- Restraining the Wild -- Monstrous Gods -- Evil Cults -- Disciplining Buddhism, Expelling Christianity -- 7. Inventing Japanese Religion -- Religion in Japanese International Missions -- Controlling the Heart: Debating the Role of Religion in the Modern State -- Inventing "Japanese Religions" -- 8. Religion within the Limits -- Internal Convictions -- External Controls -- The Birth of Religious Studies in Japan -- Conclusion -- The Invention of Superstition -- The Invention of the Secular -- The Invention of Religion -- The Third Term -- Postscript -- Appendix: Religion Explained -- Notes -- Character Glossary -- References -- Index.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (402 Seiten)
ISBN:9780226412351

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