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In "From Shinto Sect to Religion: The De-Shintoization of Tenrikyo," Kato examines how Tenrikyo shed its association with Shinto in the postwar error.
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In "From Faith-Healing Group to New Religion: The Discursive Formulation of Tenrikyo in Meiji," Franziska Steffen outlines how debates between Tenrikyo faithful and their critics led to Tenrikyo being dubbed a "new religion."
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In his article "Legitimizing an Evil Teaching: Deguchi Onisaburō and 'Superstition' in Modern Japan," Takashi Miura argues that Onisaburō appropriated the term "superstition" to use for his own purposes.
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Nagaoka explains who myth and creation narratives in the sacred texts of these traditions were interpreted in the context of early twentieth-century nationalism in Japan.
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In the introduction to the issue, editors Nagaoka Takashi and Masato Kato discuss the problems with the category of "new religions" when applied to prewar traditions such as Tenrikyo and Omoto.
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Thank you for sharing this information. Our institute might be interested in applying. Where can we find information about the project and applications? Can you share a link?
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The book is also available at the usual online store. But if you are in the US and want to avoid crossing the picket line, might we suggest ordering from this lovely site.
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Esben Petersen (Kwansei Gakuin University)
Review of: Garrett L. Washington, "Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan"
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Martin van der Linden (Linnaeus University) @martinvdlinden.bsky.social
Review of: Karli Shimizu, "Shinto Shrines: Religion, Secularity and the Japanese Empire" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022)
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Katherine G. T. Whatley (Stanford University)
"Echoes of the Pure Land: The Sonic Imaginary of Utsuho Monogatari"
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Jonathan Thumas (Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University)
"Of Separate Places: Bessho in Early Medieval Japan"
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Mark McNally (University of Hawai'i at Mānoa)
"Tokugawa Japan From the 'Outside' and the Inside: Wagaku and Kokugaku, Etics and Emics, Nationalism and Exceptionalism"
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Kameyama Mitsuhiro 亀山光明 (Princeton University)
"Becoming Kannon: Daidō Chōan, Guzeikyō, and Buddhist Reform in Meiji Japan"
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