Religion, Power, and the Rise of Shinto in Early Modern Japan

Stefan Köck is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria. Brigitte Pickl-Kolaczia is a doctoral candidate at Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria. Bernhard Scheid is a senior researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria.

Introduction: Tokugawa Religious Orthopraxy and the Phenomenon of Domain Shinto, Bernhard Scheid
Part 1: Tokugawa Orthopraxy
1. Anti-Christian Temple Certification (terauke) in Early Modern Japan: Establishment, Practice, and Challenges, Nam-lin Hur (University of British Columbia, Canada)
2. Ieyasu’s Posthumous Title and the Tokugawa Discourse on “Divine Country," Sonehara Satoshi (Tohoku University, Japan)

Part 2: Unwanted Religious Groups
3. Anti-Christian Measures and Religious Institutions in the Nagasaki Port City in the Early Edo Period (1614–1644), Carla Tronu (University of Kyoto, Japan)
4. When the Lotus went Underground: the Nichiren Buddhist Fujufuse Movement and its Early Modern Persecution, Jacqueline I. Stone (Princeton University, USA)
5. “Deviant Practices” and “Strange Acts”: Late Tokugawa Judicial Perspectives on Heteropraxy, Kate Wildman Nakai (Sophia University, Japan)

Part 3: Intellectual Challenges
6. Shinto as a Quasi-Confucian Ideology, Inoue Tomokatsu (Saitama University, Japan)
7. Buddhist-Confucian Polemics and the Position of Shinto, W.J. Boot (Leiden University, the Netherlands)
8. Ikeda Mitsumasa and Confucian Ritual, James McMullen (University of Oxford, UK)
9. Calendars and Graves: Shibukawa Harumi’s Critique of Hoshina Masayuki and Yamazaki Ansai, Hayashi Makoto (Aichi Gakuin University, Japan)

Part 4: Institutional Challenges
10. Shinto in the 1660s and 1670s: The Shrine Clauses of 1665 as an Expression of Domain Shinto,
Mark Teeuwen (University of Oslo, Norway)
11. Domain Shinto and shinto-uke in Okayama-han, Stefan Köck (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria)
12. “Kami is kami, Buddha is Buddha”: Religious Policies in Mito Domain in the Later 17th Century,
Brigitte Pickl-Kolaczia (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria)
13. Shinto Priests and the Yoshida in Izumi Province, Yannick Bardy (University of Lille, France)
14. Conflicts over Shrine Priests’ Faith and Affiliation: the Shirakawa, Yoshida, and Hirata Atsutane,
Anne Walthall (UC Irvine, USA)

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Index