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.
摘要
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.
目次
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
