Helen Hardacre, a leading scholar of religious life in modern Japan, examines the Japanese state's involvement in and manipulation of shinto from the Meiji Restoration to the present. Nowhere else in modern history do we find so pronounced an example of government sponsorship of a religion as in Japan's support of shinto. How did that sponsorship ...
The second volume in Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby's Fundamentalism Project, this text examines the effect that religious fundamentalism, be it Protestant, Hindu, Islamic, or Jewish, has had on education, science and technology, women's rights, and social structures throughout the world.
Adherents of several hundred groups known as "new religions" include roughly one-third of the Japanese population, but these movements remain largely unstudied in the West. To account for their general similarity, Helen Hardacre identifies a common world view uniting the new religions. She uses the example of Kurozumikyo, a Shinto religion founded ...
This text provides a careful examination of "mizuko kuyo", a Japanese religious ritual for aborted foetuses. Popularized during the 1970s, when religious entrepreneurs published frightening accounts of foetal wrath and spirit attacks, mizuko kuyo offers ritual attonement for women who, sometimes decades previously, chose to have abortions. In its ...
This collection of essays are intended to provide a record of the development of scholarship on Japan in the American academy. It demonstrates how each field of Japan Studies in the USA relates to its counterpart in Japan, and identifies directions for future research.
This text provides a careful examination of "misuko kuyo", a Japanese religious ritual for aborted foetuses. Popularized during the 1970s, when religious entrepreneurs published frightening accounts of foetal wrath and spirit attacks, misuko kuyo offers ritual attonement for women who, sometimes decades previously, chose to have abortions. In its ...
In this collection of essays, attention to relations of power challenges the notions of modernization as the master narrative in Meiji Japanese history. The authors present an array of intellectual perpectives on topics in the social sciences, humanities and the arts.
A multi-disciplinary study of the 2,500 year-old Maitreya legend and its influence on Buddhist culture arises from a conference at Princeton at which the origins and growth of the tradition, the symbols associated with Maitreya, and the apocalyptic and eschatological aspects were explored.
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