Invention of Religion in Japan

Name: Invention of Religion in Japan
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ISBN: 9780226412344

ISBN-10: 0226412342

ISBN-13: 9780226412344

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jason Ananda Josephson

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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 oppression or hegemony, Josephson’s account demonstrates that the process of articulating religion offered the Japanese state…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/3/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.91" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English



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



The Marks of Heresy: Organizing Difference in Premodern Japan


Difference Denied: Hierarchical Inclusion


Strange Aberrations: Exclusive Similarity


Hunting Heretics



Heretical Anthropology


Contested Silences: Two Versions of the Acts of the Saints


Demonic Dharma


Japanese Heretics and Pagans



The Arrival of Religion


Negotiating "Religion"


Taxonomy and Translation: Category in the Webs of Meaning


Unreasonable Demands



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



Formations of the Shinto Secular


Secularism Revisited


Hygienic Modernity and the World of Reality


Secular Apotheosis



Taming Demons


The Demons of Modernity


Restraining the Wild


Monstrous Gods


Evil Cults


Disciplining Buddhism, Expelling Christianity



Inventing Japanese Religion


Religion in Japanese International Missions


Controlling the Heart: Debating the Role of Religion in the Modern State


Inventing "Japanese Religions"



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