880-01 Kindai Nihon no shūkyō gensetsu to sono keifu. English
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-440) and index.
Contents:
Part 1: The Formation of the Concept of "Religion" and Modern Academic Discourse. -- The concept of "religion": from the modern opening of Japan to the emergence of religious studies -- Inoue Tetsujirō and the debates on religion and philosophy -- Buddhism: from premodern traditions to modern religion -- Part 2: The Establishment and Development of Religious Studies. -- Discourse on religion and social reality -- State and religion in Anesaki Masaharu -- The process of development of religious sudies: from history of theory to history of reflective discourse -- Part 3: Establishment of Shintō Studies and the State Shintō System. -- Modern Shintō studies and Tanaka Yoshitō -- The emperor system and "State Shintō": dislocation of "religion" and the "secular" -- The interior as the battleground of discourse -- Epilogue: beyond the debate on the concept of "religion."
Summary:
"Religious Discourse in Modern Japan explores the introduction of the Western concept of 'religion' to Japan in the modern era, and the emergence of discourse on Shintō, philosophy, and Buddhism. Taking Anesaki's founding of religious studies (shūkyōgaku) at Tokyo Imperial University as a pivot, Isomae examines the evolution of this academic discipline in the changing context of social conditions form the Meiji era through the present. Special attention is given to the development of Shintō studies/history of Shintō, and the problems of State Shintō and the emperor system are described in relation to the nature of the concept of religion. Isomae also explains how the discourse of religious studies developed in connection with secular discourses on literature and history, including Marxism." --back cover.
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