عنوان

The Conceptual Formation of the Category "Religion" in Modern Japan:

شماره

LA116687

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انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

The Conceptual Formation of the Category "Religion" in Modern Japan:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Religion, State, Shintō

نام نخستين پديدآور

Jun'ichi Isomae 磯前順一

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

The Japanese word shūkyō was originally a coined word occurring in Chinese Buddhist dictionaries, but it became used as the translation for the English word "religion" when the English word was transmitted to Japan from the West after the opening of the country at the end of the nineteenth century. At that time, a new kind of Japanese language treating Shintō and Buddhism as 'religions' was born, with Christianity forming the axis, but while still intertwined with Buddhism and Shintō. Bearing in mind the Protestant influence on acculturation processes in Japan at the beginning of the Meiji period, this paper aims to offer an overview of how the term "religion" became embedded in Japan and how the Meiji government dealt with the competition of Shintō against Christianity and Buddhism. In that context it touches upon crucial historical and social developments such as the clash between science and religion of the late 1870s and the opposition between the state and religion in the early 1890s, together with well-known incidents such as the Uchimura Kanzō affair. The paper focuses in particular on the period from the end of the early modern Edo regime through the end of the Meiji period and analyzes how views of religious issues underwent transition within Japan. The Japanese word shūkyō was originally a coined word occurring in Chinese Buddhist dictionaries, but it became used as the translation for the English word "religion" when the English word was transmitted to Japan from the West after the opening of the country at the end of the nineteenth century. At that time, a new kind of Japanese language treating Shintō and Buddhism as 'religions' was born, with Christianity forming the axis, but while still intertwined with Buddhism and Shintō. Bearing in mind the Protestant influence on acculturation processes in Japan at the beginning of the Meiji period, this paper aims to offer an overview of how the term "religion" became embedded in Japan and how the Meiji government dealt with the competition of Shintō against Christianity and Buddhism. In that context it touches upon crucial historical and social developments such as the clash between science and religion of the late 1870s and the opposition between the state and religion in the early 1890s, together with well-known incidents such as the Uchimura Kanzō affair. The paper focuses in particular on the period from the end of the early modern Edo regime through the end of the Meiji period and analyzes how views of religious issues underwent transition within Japan.

تاريخ نشر

2012

توصيف ظاهري

226-245

عنوان

Journal of Religion in Japan

شماره جلد

1/3

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

2211-8349

اصطلاح موضوعی

Buddhism

اصطلاح موضوعی

Christianity

اصطلاح موضوعی

concept of religion

اصطلاح موضوعی

dichotomy of religion and the secular

اصطلاح موضوعی

Emperor institution

اصطلاح موضوعی

Shintō

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Jun'ichi Isomae 磯前順一

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/22118349-12341236

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y