Celebrity gods : new religions, media, and authority in occupied Japan /

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Celebrity Gods explores the interaction of new religions and the media in postwar Japan. It focuses on the leaders and founders (kyōsō) of Jiu and Tenshō Kōtai Jingū Kyō, two new religions of Japan's immediate postwar period that received substantial press attention. Jiu was linked to the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dorman, Benjamin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2012]
Series:Nanzan library of Asian religion and culture.
Subjects:
Chōsen Kōgei Kenkyūkai
1900-1999
Mass media in religion > Japan > History > 20th century.
Religion and state > Japan > History > 20th century.
Mass media > Japan > Religious aspects.
Médias dans la religion > Japon > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Religion et État > Japon > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Médias > Japon > Aspect religieux.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Gaia & Earth Energies.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
Mass media in religion
Mass media > Religious aspects
Religion
Religion and state
Besatzungsmacht
Medienpublizistik
Neue Religion
Religionspolitik
Religion.
Neue Religiosität.
Massenmedien.
Japan > Religion > 20th century.
Japon > Religion > 20e siècle.
Japan
Japan.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Renmonkyō and the Meiji press
  • Deguchi Onisaburō as a prewar model
  • The birth of two celebrity gods
  • Before Jikōson
  • Building a "kingdom of god"
  • Bureaucracy, religion, and the press under occupation
  • Jikōson and Jiu
  • Kitamura Sayo
  • New religions and critics in the immediate postwar press.

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