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Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan : Buddhism and Its Persecution / James Edward Ketelaar.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1990Description: 1 online resource (299 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691221892
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 294.3095209034 23
LOC classification:
  • BQ693
  • BQ693 .K484 1990
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

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In English.

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