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Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan |
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Thomas, Jolyon Baraka (著)
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| Volume | Series Four |
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| Date | 2019.03.25 |
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| Pages | 356 |
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| Publisher | Chicago University Press |
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https://press.uchicago.edu/index.html
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| Location | Chicago, IL, US [芝加哥, 伊利諾伊州, 美國] |
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| Series | Class 200: New Studies in Religion |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Abstract | Religious freedom is a founding tenet of the United States, and it has frequently been used to justify policies towards other nations. Such was the case in 1945 when Americans occupied Japan following World War II. Though the Japanese constitution had guaranteed freedom of religion since 1889, the United States declared that protection faulty, and when the occupation ended in 1952, they claimed to have successfully replaced it with “real” religious freedom.
Through a fresh analysis of pre-war Japanese law, Jolyon Baraka Thomas demonstrates that the occupiers’ triumphant narrative obscured salient Japanese political debates about religious freedom. Indeed, Thomas reveals that American occupiers also vehemently disagreed about the topic. By reconstructing these vibrant debates, Faking Liberties unsettles any notion of American authorship and imposition of religious freedom. Instead, Thomas shows that, during the Occupation, a dialogue about freedom of religion ensued that constructed a new global set of political norms that continue to form policies today. |
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| Table of contents | Prologue: The Drums of War
Conventions
Introduction: The Universal Particularity of Religious Freedom
A Preoccupation with Religious Freedom
1 The Meiji Constitutional Regime as a Secularist System
2 Who Needs Religious Freedom?
3 Domestic Problems, Diplomatic Solutions
4 In the Absence of Religious Freedom
The Occupation of Religious Studies
5 State Shintō as a Heretical Secularism
6 Who Wants Religious Freedom?
7 Universal Rights, Unique Circumstances
8 Out of the Spiritual Vacuum
Conclusion: The Bellicose Pacifism of Religious Freedom
Epilogue: Songs of Freedom
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Notes
References
Index |
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| ISBN | 022661882X (pbk); 9780226618821 (pbk); 9780226618968 (eb) |
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| Related reviews | - Book Review: Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan by Jolyon Baraka Thomas / McLaughlin, Levi (評論)
- Book Review: Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan. by Jolyon Baraka Thomas / Michon, Nathan (著)
- Religion, Politics, and the Law in Postwar Japan / Mullins, Mark R. (評論); Thomas, Jolyon Baraka (評論); McMullen, Matthew D. (評論)
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| Created date | 2022.12.23 |
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| Modified date | 2022.12.23 |
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