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Of heretics and martyrs in Meiji Japan : Buddhism and its persecution /

How did Buddhism, so prominent in Japanese life for over a thousand years, become the target of severe persecution in the social and political turmoil of the early Meiji era? How did it survive attacks against it and reconstitute itself as an increasingly articulate and coherent belief system and a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ketelaar, James Edward, 1957-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1990.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1 The Making of a Heresy: Anti-Buddhist thought in Tokugawa Japan
  • Ch. 2 Of Heretics and Martyrs: Anti-Buddhist Policies and the Meiji Restoration
  • Ch. 3 Riles, Rule and Religion: Construction and Destruction of a National Doctrine
  • Ch. 4 The reconvening of Babel: Eastern Buddhism and the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions
  • Ch. 5 the Making of A History: Buddhism and Historicism in Meiji Japan.