Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan
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Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan

Buddhism and Its Persecution

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Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan

Buddhism and Its Persecution

About this book

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 bastion of the Japanese national heritage? Here James Ketelaar elucidates not only the development of Buddhism in the late nineteenth century but also the strategies of the Meiji state.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half-title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication Page
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Chapter One: The Making of a Heresy: Anti-Buddhist Thought in Tokugawa Japan
  10. Chapter Two: Of Heretics and Martyrs: Anti-Buddhist Policies and the Meiji Restoration
  11. Chapter Three: Rites, Rule, and Religion: Construction and Destruction of a National Doctrine
  12. Chapter Four: The Reconvening of Babel: Eastern Buddhism and the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions
  13. Chapter Five: The Making of a History: Buddhism and Historicism in Meiji Japan
  14. Conclusion
  15. Glossary
  16. Abbreviations
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index