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Beyond the mushroom cloud : commemoration, religion, and responsibility after Hiroshima /

How should the horror of the atom bomb be remembered? In what ways might we remember so that the terrible experience of its use might be transformed into hope for a universal community of peace? In a fascinating case study in comparative religion, this book traces the struggle of the hibakusha, the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miyamoto, Yuki
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Bordering religions
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The Ethics of Commemoration
  • pt. 1. Commemoration
  • Toward a Community of Memory
  • Dialogue with the Dead : The Yasukuni Shinto Shrine and Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
  • pt. 2. Religious Interpretations
  • Beyond Good and Evil : Koji Shigenobu and the True Pure Land Understanding of the Atomic Bombing
  • Sacrificial Lambs : Nagai Takashi and the Roman Catholic Interpretation of the Bombing
  • pt. 3. Responsibility
  • Women in Atomic Bomb Narratives : Hagiography, Alterity, and Non-Nomological Ethics
  • Postscript: After Too Many Mushroom Clouds
  • Afterword.