TY - BOOK AU - Ketelaar,James Edward TI - Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan: Buddhism and Its Persecution SN - 9780691221892 AV - BQ693 U1 - 294.3095209034 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Buddhism KW - Social aspects KW - Japan KW - History KW - 1868-1945 KW - Buddhists KW - Persecutions KW - HISTORY / Asia / Japan KW - bisacsh KW - Aizawa Seishisai KW - Anesaki Masaharu KW - Bureau of Tombs KW - Christianity KW - Confucianism KW - Darwin, Charles KW - Eleven Themes KW - Emperor Jimmu KW - Emperor Komei KW - Eto Shimpei KW - Fujita Toko KW - FukubaBisei KW - Fukuda Gyokai KW - Fukuzawa Yukichi KW - Goi Ranju KW - Han Yu KW - Hirai Kinzo KW - Hirata Atsutane KW - Hirata School KW - Inoue Tetsujiro KW - IshikawaTairei KW - Iwakura Tomomi KW - Juge Shigekuni KW - Kamei Koremi KW - Kikuchi Taketoki KW - Kishimoto Nobuta KW - Kusunoki Masashige KW - Ministry of State (Dajokan) KW - Mito KW - Mori Arinori KW - Motoori Norinaga KW - Murakami Senshō KW - Nakai Chikuzan KW - Okubo Toshimichi KW - Okuma Shigenobu KW - Ozu Tetsunen KW - Saigo Takamori KW - Senke Takatomi KW - Seventeen Themes KW - Shibata Reiichi KW - Tanaka Yoritsune KW - Teaching Academies KW - Toyotomi Hideyoshi KW - anti-Buddhist legislation KW - carnivalesque KW - cosmopolitanism KW - decadence KW - festival calendar KW - jinsei KW - national essence KW - temple registration N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Preface --; CHAPTER ONE The Making of a Heresy: Anti-Buddhist Thought in Tokugawa Japan --; CHAPTER TWO Of Heretics and Martyrs: Anti-Buddhist Policies and the Meiji Restoration --; CHAPTER THREE Rites, Rule, and Religion: Construction and Destruction of a National Doctrine --; CHAPTER FOUR The Reconvening of Babel: Eastern Buddhism and the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions --; CHAPTER FIVE The Making of a History: Buddhism and Historicism in Meiji Japan --; CONCLUSION --; Glossary --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - How did Buddhism, so prominent in Japanese life for over a thousand years, become the target of severe persecution in the social and political turmoil of the early Meiji era? How did it survive attacks against it and reconstitute itself as an increasingly articulate and coherent belief system and a bastion of the Japanese national heritage? Here James Ketelaar elucidates not only the development of Buddhism in the late nineteenth century but also the strategies of the Meiji state UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691221892?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691221892 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691221892/original ER -