Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan: Buddhism and Its Persecution

Ketelaar, James Edward (著)

著者

Ketelaar, James Edward (著)

出版年月日

1990

ページ

285

出版者

Princeton University Press

出版サイト

https://press.princeton.edu/

出版地

Princeton, NJ, US [普林斯顿, 紐澤西州, 美國]

資料の種類

書籍=Book

言語

英文=English

ノート

James Edward Ketelaar is Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University. Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan was a finalist for the Hiromi Arisawa Prize Award given by the American Association of University Presses.

抄録

How did Buddhism, so prominent in Japanese life for over a thousand years, become the target of severe persecution in the social and political turmoil of the early Meiji era? How did it survive attacks against it and reconstitute itself as an increasingly articulate and coherent belief system and a bastion of the Japanese national heritage? Here James Ketelaar elucidates not only the development of Buddhism in the late nineteenth century but also the strategies of the Meiji state.

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii

CHAPTER ONE
The Making of a Heresy: Anti-Buddhist Thought in Tokugawa Japan 3
Introduction 3
Interpreting Persecution: Law of the Buddha, Law of the King 5
The Language of Persecution: Anti-Buddhist Thought 14
The Language of Persecution: And History 19
The Language of Persecution: And National Essence 28
The Language of Persecution: And Political Economy 37
Conclusion 41

CHAPTER TWO
Of Heretics and Martyrs: Anti-Buddhist Policies and the Meiji Restoration 43
Introduction 43
Mito: By Way of Paradigm 46
Satsuma: Complete Implementation 54
Complications: Bannings, Banks, and Wooden Fish 65
From Heretics to Martyrs 77
Conclusion 83

CHAPTER THREE
Rites, Rule, and Religion: Construction and Destruction of a National Doctrine 87
Introduction 87
Saisei itchi: Unity of Rite and Rule 91
Seikyō itchi: Unity of Rule and Doctrine 96
Seikyō bunri: Separation of Rule and Religion 122
Conclusion 130

CHAPTER FOUR
The Reconvening of Babel: Eastern Buddhism and the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions 136
Introduction 136
The Invitation 139
Parliamentarian Conceptions of Religion 145
Constructing the Other 152
The Champions of Buddhism 159
Circumambulation of the Globe 166
Conclusion 168

CHAPTER FIVE
The Making of a History: Buddhism and Historicism in Meiji Japan 174
Introduction 174
Transsectarianism: "Essentials of the Eight Sects" 177
Transnationalism: Constructing a United Buddhism 184
Cosmopolitanism: Constructing a Global Buddhism 191
Buddhist Bibles: Distillation of the Canon 207

CONCLUSION 213
Glossary 221
Abbreviations 229
Notes 231
Bibliography 275
Index 283

ISBN

9780691024813 (pbc); 9780691055992 (hc); 0691055998 (hc); 0691024812 (pbc)

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