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Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan: Buddhism and Its Persecution
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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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“It is clear that Ents ū was aware that his was a new theory, albeit based on numerous Buddhist scriptures and commentaries; he was critical of Western theories in so far as they did not conform to his own interpretation of the Buddhist classics, but he was equally critical of other Buddhist authors who reacted against Western astronomical theories without direct knowledge of astronomy.”
From Sada Kaiseki: An Alternative Discourse on Buddhism, Modernity, and Nationalism in the Early Meiji Period (2011) · cites this paper as [20]
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- Authors
- Ketelaar, J. E.
- Corresponding author
- Ketelaar, James Edward
- Venue
- Princeton University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 1990-12-31
- OpenAlex
- W4298288713
- Cited by
- 127
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 13 · 2012: 1
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- 0.00
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Princeton University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Indian and Buddhist Studies
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Japanese History and Culture
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Religion and Society Interactions
- Keywords
- Japanese Buddhism, Meiji period, religious persecution, heresy, martyrs, state religion policy, religious reform, national heritage, late 19th century
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