Politics and Religion in Modern Japan: Red Sun, White Lotus

Cover......Page 1
Half title......Page 2
Also by Roy Starrs......Page 3
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables and Figures......Page 8
PrefaceThe Transdisciplinary Significanceof Red Sun, White Lotus......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Notes on Contributors......Page 15
Introduction: Politics and Religionin Japan......Page 18
1 Ritual, Purity, and Power: Rethinking Shinto in Restoration Japan......Page 45
2 The Mikado’s August Body: ‘Divinity’ and ‘Corporeality’ of the Meiji Emperor and the Ideological Construction of Imperial Rule......Page 71
3 Does Shinto History ‘Begin at Kuroda’? On the Historical Continuities of Political Shinto......Page 101
4 Sada Kaiseki: An Alternative Discourse on Buddhism, Modernity, and Nationalism in the Early Meiji Period......Page 121
5 Carry the Buddha out into the Street! A Sliver of Buddhist Resistance to Japanese Militarism......Page 160
6 The Atmosphere of Conversion in Interwar Japan......Page 179
7 A Naked Public Square? Religion and Politics in Imperial Japan......Page 202
8 ‘The Gakkai is Faith; the Kōmeitō is Action’: Sōka Gakkai and ‘Buddhist Politics’......Page 233
9 From Mishima to Aum: Religio-political Violence in Late Twentieth-Century Japan......Page 257
10 Voices of Rage: Six Paths to the Problem of Yasukuni......Page 295
Afterword: A Comparative Glance at Politics and Religion in Modern Japan......Page 322
Index......Page 332