Politics and religion in modern Japan

Chapter 1 Introduction: Politics and Religion in Japan

Chapter 2 Ritual, Purity, and Power: Rethinking Shinto in Restoration Japan

Chapter 3 The Mikado’s August Body: ‘Divinity’ and ‘Corporeality’ of the Meiji Emperor and the Ideological Construction of Imperial Rule

Chapter 4 Does Shinto History ‘Begin at Kuroda’? On the Historical Continuities of Political Shinto

Chapter 5 Sada Kaiseki: An Alternative Discourse on Buddhism, Modernity, and Nationalism in the Early Meiji Period

Chapter 6 Carry the Buddha out into the Street! A Sliver of Buddhist Resistance to Japanese Militarism

Chapter 7 The Atmosphere of Conversion in Interwar Japan

Chapter 9 ‘The Gakkai is Faith; the Kōmeitō is Action’: Sōka Gakkai and ‘Buddhist Politics’

Chapter 10 From Mishima to Aum: Religio-political Violence in Late Twentieth-Century Japan

Chapter 11 Voices of Rage: Six Paths to the Problem of Yasukuni

Chapter 12 Afterword: A Comparative Glance at Politics and Religion in Modern Japan