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Religion, Power, and the Rise of Shinto in Early Modern Japan (Paperback)
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Religion, Power, and the Rise of Shinto in Early Modern Japan (Paperback)
Series: Bloomsbury Shinto Studies
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This book sheds new light on the relationship between religion and
state in early modern Japan, and demonstrates the growing awareness
of Shinto in both the political and the intellectual elite of
Tokugawa Japan, even though Buddhism remained the privileged means
of stately religious control. The first part analyses how the
Tokugawa government aimed to control the populace via Buddhism and
at the same time submitted Buddhism to the sacralization of the
Tokugawa dynasty. The second part focuses on the religious protests
throughout the entire period, with chapters on the suppression of
Christians, heterodox Buddhist sects, and unwanted folk
practitioners. The third part tackles the question of why early
Tokugawa Confucianism was particularly interested in "Shinto" as an
alternative to Buddhism and what "Shinto" actually meant from a
Confucian stance. The final part of the book explores attempts to
curtail the institutional power of Buddhism by reforming Shinto
shrines, an important step in the so called "Shintoization of
shrines" including the development of a self-contained Shinto
clergy.
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