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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©1990.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Chicago) under the title: Of heretics and martyrs. 1987. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 285 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-282) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780691221892 0691221898 |