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Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine : Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan /

'Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine' demonstrates that evolutionary theory was never passively accepted, but played active and controversial roles in modern Japanese thought.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Godart, G. Clinton (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The religious transmission of evolutionary theory in Meiji-era Japan
  • Evolution, individuals, and the kokutai
  • The dharma after Darwin : Meiji Buddhism and the embrace of evolution
  • The promise of utopia : socialist Darwinism and evolutionary utopianism
  • "Evolutionary theory is the superstition of modernity"
  • Kannon's enduring embrace.