The "greatest problem" : religion and state formation in Meiji Japan / Trent E. Maxey.
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Maxey, Trent Elliott (författare)
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Harvard University. Asia Center (creator_code:isb_t)
- ISBN 9780674491991
- Publicerad: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2014
- Engelska xiii, 330 pages
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Serie: Harvard East Asian monographs ; 365
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- The crisis of conversion in restoration Japan -- The diplomatic negotiation of belief in a semi-colonial world -- Enlightening faith and subjecting religion -- In search of a "religious settlement" -- The religious constitution of Meiji Japan -- Epilogue : assembling religion in Meiji Japan.
- At its inception in 1868, the modern Japanese state pursued policies and created institutions that lacked a coherent conception of religion. Yet the architects of the modern state came to pursue an explicit "religious settlement" as they set about designing a constitutional order through the 1880s. As a result, many of the cardinal institutions of the state, particularly the imperial institution, came to be defined in opposition to religion. Drawing on an assortment of primary sources, including internal government debates, diplomatic negotiations, and the popular press, Maxey documents how the novel category of religion came to be seen as the "greatest problem" by the architects of the modern Japanese state. In Meiji Japan, religion came to designate a cognitive and social pluralism that resisted direct state control. It also provided the modern state with a means to contain, regulate, and neutralize that plurality.
Ämnesord
- Politiska förhållanden (sao)
- Religion and state -- Japan -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)
- Secularism -- Japan -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)
- Politics and government (fast)
- Religion. (fast)
- Religion and state. (fast)
- Secularism. (fast)
- Religion och samhälle -- historia (sao)
- Sekularisering -- historia (sao)
- Japan (sao)
- Japan -- Politics and government -- 1868-1912. (LCSH)
- Japan -- Religion -- 1868-1912. (LCSH)
- Japan. (fast)
- 1868-1912 (Meijiperioden, Japan) (sao)
- 1800-1912 (fast)
Genre
- History. (fast)
Klassifikation
- DS881.95 (LCC)
- 322/.1095209034 (DDC)
- Cga (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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