Secularities In Japan

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004517685
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secularities in Japan written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the assumption that existing epistemic and social structures shape the way in which Western concepts of secularism were appropriated, the contributions in this volume inquire into the historical conditions for the development of a Japanese form of secularity.

Author : Hans Martin Krämer
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824857216
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shimaji Mokurai and the Reconception of Religion and the Secular in Modern Japan written by Hans Martin Krämer and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion is at the heart of such ongoing political debates in Japan as the constitutionality of official government visits to Yasukuni Shrine, yet the very categories that frame these debates, namely religion and the secular, entered the Japanese language less than 150 years ago. To think of religion as a Western imposition, as something alien to Japanese reality, however, would be simplistic. As this in-depth study shows for the first time, religion and the secular were critically reconceived in Japan by Japanese who had their own interests and traditions as well as those received in their encounters with the West. It argues convincingly that by the mid-nineteenth century developments outside of Europe and North America were already part of a global process of rethinking religion. The Buddhist priest Shimaji Mokurai (1838–1911) was the first Japanese to discuss the modern concept of religion in some depth in the early 1870s. In his person, indigenous tradition, politics, and Western influence came together to set the course the reconception of religion would take in Japan. The volume begins by tracing the history of the modern Japanese term for religion, shūkyō, and its components and exploring the significance of Shimaji’s sectarian background as a True Pure Land Buddhist. Shimaji went on to shape the early Meiji government’s religious policy and was essential in redefining the locus of Buddhism in modernity and indirectly that of Shinto, which led to its definition as nonreligious and in time to the creation of State Shinto. Finally, the work offers an extensive account of Shimaji’s intellectual dealings with the West (he was one of the first Buddhists to travel to Europe) as well as clarifying the ramifications of these encounters for Shimaji’s own thinking. Concluding chapters historicize Japanese appropriations of secularization from medieval times to the twentieth century and discuss the meaning of the reconception of religion in modern Japan. Highly original and informed, Shimaji Mokurai and the Reconception of Religion and the Secular in Modern Japan not only emphasizes the agency of Asian actors in colonial and semicolonial situations, but also hints at the function of the concept of religion in modern society: a secularist conception of religion was the only way to ensure the survival of religion as we know it today. In this respect, the Japanese reconception of religion and the secular closely parallels similar developments in the West.

Author : Tokihisa Sumimoto
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786605953
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion, State, and Political Culture in Japan written by Tokihisa Sumimoto and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan had developed a secular civilization long before going through its modern period, characterized by the officially-sanctioned unification of nationalism and state-worship that reached its apotheosis during World War II, followed by the economic growth-oriented post-war period. While the relationship between religion and state has varied significantly over time, what has been consistently observed throughout Japan’s history is the absence of religions that are socially influential but independent from the state, or the absence of a dualistic relationship between religion and state. The kind of political ethos that should underpin democratic principles such as the rule of law and human rights has remained underdeveloped. This book examines the concept of “reconstructive postmodernism,” a perspective that has emerged from a normative approach to international relations that emphasizes the need to democratize and humanize the secularistic civilizations based on the reconstruction of spirituality and religiosity. Using this concept, this book offers a number of implications of its findings to the case of Japan and for global governance in the post-secular age more broadly.

Author : Christoph Kleine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secular Ground Bass of Pre-modern Japan Reconsidered written by Christoph Kleine and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marian Burchardt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1614519781
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multiple Secularities Beyond the West written by Marian Burchardt and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions of secularity and modernity have become globalized, but most studies still focus on the West. This volume breaks new ground by comparatively exploring developments in five areas of the world, some of which were hitherto situated at the margins of international scholarly discussions: Africa, the Arab World, East Asia, South Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe. In theoretical terms, the book examines three key dimensions of modern secularity: historical pathways, cultural meanings, and global entanglements of secular formations. The contributions show how differences in these dimensions are linked to specific histories of religious and ethnic diversity, processes of state-formation and nation-building. They also reveal how secularities are critically shaped through civilizational encounters, processes of globalization, colonial conquest, and missionary movements, and how entanglements between different territorially grounded notions of secularity or between local cultures and transnational secular arenas unfold over time.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Tolerance and Secularization in Japan, from the Perspective of Three Models of Japan written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Article on religious secularization in Japan. Funabiki examines the differences between Japanese attitudes toward "shukyo" and that of Westerners toward "religion." Funabiki is a professor of cultural studies at the University of Tokyo.

Author : George Ehrhardt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kōmeitō written by George Ehrhardt and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines the relationship between religious groups and politics in Japan focusing on Kōmeitō, Japan's most successful religious party. Describes Kōmeitō's campaign practices and varying modes of political participation from its founding to its decision to join the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in a coalition government"--

Author : Robert N. Bellah
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520235983
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining Japan written by Robert N. Bellah and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-02-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bellah is a sociologist with a grand vision of history, deeply concerned with the twists and turns of religious values, weaving pre-modern religious thinking into the debates of modernization and modernity. He takes a reflective turn with Imagining Japan, evidencing his profound concern with religious evolution."—Tetsuo Najita, University of Chicago "One of the most original attempts to understand some of the psychological and symbolic roots of the central problems in Japanese history. Bellah masterfully brings together intellectual and institutional dimensions of Japan, making a very important contribution to Japanese Studies."—S. N. Eisenstadt, Professor Emeritus at Hebrew University and author of Japanese Civilization: A Comparative View

Author : Mirjam Künkler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110841771X
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Secular Age Beyond the West written by Mirjam Künkler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compares secularity in societies not shaped by Western Christianity, particularly in Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa.

Author : Marian Burchardt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1614514054
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multiple Secularities Beyond the West written by Marian Burchardt and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions of secularity and modernity have become globalized, but most studies still focus on the West. This volume breaks new ground by comparatively exploring developments in five areas of the world, some of which were hitherto situated at the margins of international scholarly discussions: Africa, the Arab World, East Asia, South Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe. In theoretical terms, the book examines three key dimensions of modern secularity: historical pathways, cultural meanings, and global entanglements of secular formations. The contributions show how differences in these dimensions are linked to specific histories of religious and ethnic diversity, processes of state-formation and nation-building. They also reveal how secularities are critically shaped through civilizational encounters, processes of globalization, colonial conquest, and missionary movements, and how entanglements between different territorially grounded notions of secularity or between local cultures and transnational secular arenas unfold over time.