Isomae Jun’ichi, Ph.D. (2010), The University of Tokyo, is Associate Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto. He studies the discourse and practice of religion and history in Japan. He has published many monographs and articles focusing on postcolonial criticism and postsecularism, including Japanese Mythology: Hermeneutics on Scripture (Equinox/International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2010), and Iki no shiko: Tasha, gaibusei, kokyo (Thoughts of Threshold: Others, Exteriority, and Homes) (Hosei University Press, 2014).
關鍵詞
Religion; Philosophy of religion
摘要
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 Shinto, philosophy, and Buddhism. Taking Anesaki’s founding of religious studies (shukyogaku) at Tokyo Imperial University as a pivot, Isomae examines the evolution of this academic discipline in the changing context of social conditions from the Meiji era through the present. Special attention is given to the development of Shinto studies/history of Shinto, and the problems of State Shinto 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.
目次
Preliminary Material i - xxv Introduction: The Development of the Concept of Religion and the Discipline of Religious Studies 1 - 24 1 The Concept of “Religion”: From the Modern Opening of Japan to the Emergence of Religious Studies 25 - 67 2 Inoue Tetsujirō and the Debates on Religion and Philosophy 68 - 97 3 Buddhism: From Premodern Traditions to Modern Religion 98 - 118 4 Discourse on Religion and Social Reality 119 - 146 5 State and Religion in Anesaki Masaharu 147 - 198 6 The Process of Development of Religious Studies: From History of Theory to History of Reflective Discourse 199 - 229 7 Modern Shintō Studies and Tanaka Yoshitō 231 - 263 8 The Emperor System and “State Shintō”: Dislocation of “Religion” and the “Secular” 264 - 296 9 The Interior as the Battleground of Discourse 297 - 335 Epilogue: Beyond the Debate on the Concept of “Religion” 336 - 345 Reference List 346 - 440 Index 441 - 474
