Shinto Und Die Konzeption Des Japanischen Nationalwesens, Kokutai: Der Religiose Traditionalismus in Neuzeit Und Moderne Japans (Handbook of Oriental Studies , No 8)

shinto und die konzeption des japanischen nationalwesens, kokutai: der religiose traditionalismus in neuzeit und moderne japans (handbook of oriental studies , no 8)

Shinto Und Die Konzeption Des Japanischen Nationalwesens, Kokutai: Der Religiose Traditionalismus in Neuzeit Und Moderne Japans (Handbook of Oriental Studies , No 8)

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The subject of this volume is the historical development of shintô and national thought in premodern and modern Japan. After examining the first instances of shintô-confucian syncretism in the early Edo period, the author investigates the function of shintô as a religious system to legitimize political power and explores how during the late Edo period this culminates in the concept of a specific Japanese national polity(kokutai).

Though the main caesurae in the process of modern Japanese history (e.g. Meiji restoration and the end of the Pacific War in 1945) play a dominant role in this context, the author points out that the main historical, religious and ideological continuities are of much greater importance; The ideas and concepts elaborated by shintô thinkers during the Edo period became reality in modern Japan.

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Shinto Und Die Konzeption Des Japanischen Nationalwesens, Kokutai: Der Religiose Traditionalismus in Neuzeit Und Moderne Japans (Handbook of Oriental Studies , No 8)

Shinto Und Die Konzeption Des Japanischen Nationalwesens, Kokutai: Der Religiose Traditionalismus in Neuzeit Und Moderne Japans (Handbook of Oriental Studies , No 8),Klaus Antoni,Brill Academic Publishers,9004103163,General,History: World,Interior Design - General,Religion - World Religions,Shintoism,Social Science,Sociology

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