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Nichirenism, Utopianism, and Modernity: Rethinking Ishiwara Kanji’s East Asia League Movement |
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Godart, Gerard Clinton
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Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
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| Volume | v.42 n.2 |
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| Date | 2015 |
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| Pages | 235 - 274 |
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| Publisher | Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture=南山宗教文化研究所 |
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http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/
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| Location | 名古屋, 日本 [Nagoya, Japan] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Godart, Gerard Clinton (Lecturer in the Modern Japanese Studies Program at Hokkaido
University.) |
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| Keyword | Ishiwara Kanji; Nichirenism; Nichiren Buddhism; East Asia League Movement; utopianism; science and religion; women in Buddhism; Lotus Sutra |
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| Abstract | The East Asia League Association (Tōarenmei kyōkai, or East Asia League Movement, Tōarenmei undō), a Pan-Asianist organization formed in 1939 and active throughout the war and well into the 1950s, can also be seen as one important variant of the modern lay Nichiren Buddhist organizations that sprung up in Japan in the first half of the twentieth century. This article explores the character, history, world view, and practical goals of this movement, and argues that it was committed to an alternative course of modernization that can be characterized as a Nichiren Buddhist utopianism. While the theory of the final war propagated by its leader, Ishiwara Kanji, is relatively well known, this article analyzes several less known—though central and distinct—elements of the East Asia League: its emphasis on the harmony of religion, science, and technology, as well as the roles of Koreans and women in the movement. This analysis shows how the East Asia League Movement engaged with particular elements of modernity: the nation-state, national identity and minorities, urbanization and the countryside, gender inequality, and religion and science, and hoped to replace the differentiations of the modern era with the unity of the Lotus Sutra. |
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| Table of contents | [Table of Contents]
Ishiwara Kanji p.238
Short Historical Overview of the East Asia League p.240
The East Asian League as a Religious Movement p.243
Buddhism, Science, and Technology p.245
Technology of the final war p.246
Urban planning and agriculture p.247
Unifying science and religion p.253
Women in the East Asia League p.256
Koreans in the East Asia League p.262
Conclusions: The East Asian League as a Nichirenist Buddhist Movement p.265
references p.270 |
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| ISSN | 03041042 (P) |
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| Created date | 2016.03.17 |
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| Modified date | 2017.09.14 |
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