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Faking liberties : religious freedom in American-occupied Japan
Title
Faking liberties : religious freedom in American-occupied Japan / Jolyon Baraka Thomas.
ISBN
9780226618791
022661879X
9780226618821
022661882X
9780226618968 (e-book)
Publication
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Physical Description
xiv, 356 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 16, 2019
Series
Class 200, new studies in religion.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Prologue: the drums of war
Conventions
Introduction: the universal particularity of religious freedom
A preoccupation with religious freedom
The Meiji constitutional regime as a secularist system
Who needs religious freedom?
Domestic problems, diplomatic solutions
In the absence of religious freedom
The occupation of religious studies
State shinto as a heretical secularism
Who wants religious freedom?
Universal rights, unique circumstances
Out of the spiritual vacuum
Conclusion: the bellicose pacifism of religious freedom
Epilogue: songs of freedom.
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Genre/Form
History.
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