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The invention of religion in Japan / Jason Ānanda Josephson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher number: MWT15968565Publication details: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012, ©2012.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 387 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780226412351
  • 0226412350
  • 1283622742
  • 9781283622745
  • 9786613935199
  • 6613935190
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Invention of religion in Japan.DDC classification:
  • 322/.1095209034 23
LOC classification:
  • BL2207.3 .J67 2012eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
The marks of heresy : organizing difference in premodern Japan -- Heretical anthropology -- The arrival of religion -- The science of the gods -- Formations of the Shinto secular -- Taming demons -- Inventing Japanese religion -- Religion within the limits.
Summary: Throughout its long history, Japan had no concept of what we call "religion." There was no corresponding Japanese word, nor anything close to its meaning. But when American warships appeared off the coast of Japan in 1853 and forced the Japanese government to sign treaties demanding, among other things, freedom of religion, the country had to contend with this Western idea. In this book, Jason Ananda Josephson reveals how Japanese officials invented religion in Japan and traces the sweeping intellectual, legal, and cultural changes that followed. More than a tale of oppre.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)489891

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-379) and index.

The marks of heresy : organizing difference in premodern Japan -- Heretical anthropology -- The arrival of religion -- The science of the gods -- Formations of the Shinto secular -- Taming demons -- Inventing Japanese religion -- Religion within the limits.

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Throughout its long history, Japan had no concept of what we call "religion." There was no corresponding Japanese word, nor anything close to its meaning. But when American warships appeared off the coast of Japan in 1853 and forced the Japanese government to sign treaties demanding, among other things, freedom of religion, the country had to contend with this Western idea. In this book, Jason Ananda Josephson reveals how Japanese officials invented religion in Japan and traces the sweeping intellectual, legal, and cultural changes that followed. More than a tale of oppre.

English.