Acknowledgements
Preface: Religion, Shint, and the Emperor System The Modern West and the
Concept of Religion Shint and the Emperor System
Introduction: The Development of the Concept of Religion and the Discipline
of Religious Studies Religion in the West Religion in the Non-West
Modern Japan in the Debate
PART 1
THE FORMATION OF THE CONCEPT OF RELIGION AND MODERN ACADEMIC DISCOURSE
Chapter 1: The Concept of Religion: From the Modern Opening of Japan to the
Emergence of Religious Studies
- Translating Religion as Shky
- From Toleration of Christianity to the Suspension of the Kybush
- Policy The National Morality Phase
- The Emergence of Academic Discourse on Religion
- Summary
Chapter 2: Inoue Tetsujir and the Debates on Religion and Philosophy
The Comparative Religion and Eastern Philosophy Lectures
Developments in the History of Eastern Philosophy in Japan
Chapter 3: Buddhism: From Premodern Traditions to Modern Religion
- The Doubling of Buddhism
- State Authority and Universalism
PART 2: THE ESTABLISHMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Chapter 4: Discourse on Religion and Social Reality
- The Tasks of Religious Studies Today
- Anesaki Masaharus Religious Studies
The Essence of Religion
Critique of Power and Authority
The National Community Theory
- Making Discourse Relevant to Society
Chapter 5: State and Religion in Anesaki Masaharu
- Religion and the State
Jdo Shinsh Buddhism and the Imperial House
From Comparative Religion to Religious Studies
- Experience of the West and Representation of Japan
The Yellow Peril and Opposition to the West
Mysticism and Discourse on the Kokutai
East-West Harmony and the Representation of Japan
- The Collapse of Harmony Between East and West
Chapter 6: The Process of Development of Religious Studies: From History of
Theory to History of Reflective Discourse
- The Study of the History of Religious Studies in Japan
- From History of Academic Theory on Religion to History of Scholarly
Discourse
- The Aum Shinriky Incident and Theories of Religious Experience
PART 3: THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SHINT STUDIES AND THE STATE SHINT SYSTEM
Chapter 7: Modern Shint Studies and Tanaka Yoshito
- The National Morality Doctrine
Student of Inoue Tetsujir
Toward a Japanese Theory of Education
- Tanakas Shint Studies Project
The Imperial Way and Shint
Shint and Scholarship
- From the National Morality Doctrine to Shint Studies
Shinto Shrines as Not Religious
Making Shint the State Religion
Founding Shint Studies
- Impasse in Shint Studies
Chapter 8: The Emperor System and State Shint: Dislocation of Religion and
the Secular
- Theories of Religion in Postcolonial Criticism
- Theories of State Shint and the Separation of State and Religion
- The Fluctuating Concept of Religion
- The Emperor System as Beyond the Law
Chapter 9: The Interior as the Battleground of Discourse
- Incomprehensible Interiority
Interiority and Religion
Equilibrium Lost
- Marxist Historiography and Religion
Russia and the Rise of Marxism
Russian Marxism and Literature/Religion
Russian Marxism and History
- Toward the History of Japanese Religion
The Merging of Marxist Historiography and Religion
From Wartime to the Postwar Period
Epilogue: Beyond the Debate on the Concept of Religion
- A Vision for a New Study of Religion
- Dialogue Under Postcolonial Conditions
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