Religious Discourse in Modern Japan : Religion, State, and Shintō.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Religion, Shintō, and the Emperor System -- The Modern West and the Concept of Religion -- Shintō and the Emperor System -- Introduction The Development of the Concept of Religion and the Discipline of Religious Studies -- "Religion" in the West -- "Religion" in the Non-West -- Modern Japan in the Debate -- Part One The Formation of the Concept of "Religion" and Modern Academic Discourse -- Chapter 1 The Concept of "Religion": From the Modern Opening of Japan to the Emergence of Religious Studies -- Translating "Religion" as Shūkyō -- From Toleration of Christianity to the Suspension of the Kyōbushō Policy -- The "National Morality" Phase -- The Emergence of Academic Discourse on Religion -- Chapter 2 Inoue Tetsujirō and the Debates on Religion and Philosophy -- The "Comparative Religion and Eastern Philosophy" Lectures -- Broad Outline of the Lectures -- The Political Dimension of the Indian Religion Discourse -- Comparative Religion and Eastern Philosophy -- Developments in the History of Eastern Philosophy -- West versus East -- Shifting Towards the Study of Japan -- The Subdividing of Scholarship -- Chapter 3 Buddhism: From Premodern Traditions to Modern Religion -- The "Doubling" of Buddhism -- State Authority and Universalism -- Part Two The Establishment and Development of Religious Studies -- Chapter 4 Discourse on Religion and Social Reality -- The Tasks for Religious Studies Today -- Anesaki Masaharu's Religious Studies -- The Essence of Religion -- Critique of Power and Authority -- The National Community Theory -- Making the Discourse Relevant to Society -- Chapter 5 State and Religion in Anesaki Masaharu -- Religion and the State -- Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism and the Imperial House -- From Comparative Religion to Religious Studies -- Experience of the West and Representation of Japan.

The "Yellow Peril" and Opposition to the West -- Mysticism and Discourse on the Kokutai -- East-West Harmony and the Representation of Japan -- The Collapse of Harmony between East and West -- Chapter 6 The Process of Development of Religious Studies: From History of Theory to History of Reflective Discourse -- The Study of the History of Religious Studies in Japan -- From Academic Theory to History of Scholarly Discourse -- The Aum Shinrikyō Incident and Theories of Religious Experience -- Part Three Establishment of Shintō Studies and the State Shintō System -- Chapter 7 Modern Shintō Studies and Tanaka Yoshitō -- The National Morality Doctrine -- Student of Inoue Tetsujirō -- Towards a Japanese Theory of Education -- Tanaka's Shintō Studies Project -- The Imperial Way and Shintō -- Shintō and Scholarship -- From the National Morality Doctrine to Shintō Studies -- Shintō Shrines as Not Religious -- Making Shintō the State Religion -- Founding "Shintō Studies" -- Impasse in Shintō Studies -- Chapter 8 The Emperor System and "State Shintō": Dislocation of "Religion" and the "Secular" -- Theories of Religion in Postcolonial Criticism -- Theories of State Shintō and the Separation of State and Religion -- The Fluctuating Concept of Religion -- The Emperor System as Beyond the Law -- Chapter 9 The Interior as the Battleground of Discourse -- Incomprehensible Interiority -- Interiority and Religion -- Equilibrium Lost -- Marxist Historiography and Religion -- Russia and the Rise of Marxism -- Russian Marxism and Literature/Religion -- Russian Marxism and History -- Toward the History of Japanese Religion -- The Merging of Marxist Historiography and Religion -- From Wartime to the Postwar Period -- Epilogue Beyond the Debate on the Concept of "Religion" -- A Vision for a New Study of Religion -- Dialogue under Postcolonial Conditions -- Reference List.

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Religious Discourse in Modern Japan explores the transportation of the Western concept of "religion" in in the modern era; the emergence of discourse on Shinto, philosophy, and Buddhism; and the evolution of the academic discipline of religious studies in Japan.

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