The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan
The Vanquished Gods of Izumo
Seiten
2016
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4742-7108-0 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4742-7108-0 (ISBN)
Yijiang Zhong analyses the formation of Shinto as a complex and diverse religious tradition in early modern and Meiji Japan, 1600-1868. Highlighting the role of the god Okuninushi and the mythology centered on the Izumo Shrine in western Japan as part of this process, he shows how and why this god came to be ignored in State Shinto in the modern period.
In doing so, Zhong moves away from the traditional understanding of Shinto history as something completely internal to the nation of Japan, and instead situates the formation of Shinto within a larger geopolitical context involving intellectual and political developments in the East Asian region and the role of western colonial expansion.
The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan draws extensively on primary source materials in Japan, many of which were only made available to the public less than a decade ago and have not yet been studied. Source materials analysed include shrine records and object materials, contemporary written texts, official materials from the national and provincial levels, and a broad range of visual sources based on contemporary prints, drawings, photographs and material culture.
In doing so, Zhong moves away from the traditional understanding of Shinto history as something completely internal to the nation of Japan, and instead situates the formation of Shinto within a larger geopolitical context involving intellectual and political developments in the East Asian region and the role of western colonial expansion.
The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan draws extensively on primary source materials in Japan, many of which were only made available to the public less than a decade ago and have not yet been studied. Source materials analysed include shrine records and object materials, contemporary written texts, official materials from the national and provincial levels, and a broad range of visual sources based on contemporary prints, drawings, photographs and material culture.
Yijiang Zhong is Associate Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia at the University of Tokyo, Japan and a Research Fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan.
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Note on Text/Translation
Introduction
1: Resurrecting the Great Lord of the Land, 1653-1667
2: The Month without the Gods, 1600-1871
3: True Pillar of the Soul, 1792-1846
4: Converting Japan, 1825-1875
5: Competing Ways of the Gods, 1872-1889
Conclusion The Izumo Gods, Nation, and Empire
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 06.10.2016 |
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Reihe/Serie | Bloomsbury Shinto Studies |
Zusatzinfo | 24 bw illus |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 562 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4742-7108-1 / 1474271081 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4742-7108-0 / 9781474271080 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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