Shinto and the State, 1868-1988
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Shinto and the State, 1868-1988
By (Author) Helen Hardacre
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
11th November 1991
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Religion: general
322.10952
Runner-up for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 1991
Physical Properties
Paperback
224
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
312g
Description
Helen Hardacre, a leading scholar of religious life in modern Japan, examines the Japanese state's involvement in and manipulation of Shinto from the Meiji Restoration to the present. Nowhere else in modern history do we find so pronounced an example of government sponsorship of a religion as in Japan's support of Shinto. How did that sponsorship come about and how was it maintained How was it dismantled after World War II What attempts are being made today to reconstruct it In answering these questions Helen Hardacre shows why State Shinto symbols, such as the Yasukuni Shrine and its prefectural branches, are still the focus for bitter struggles over who will have the right to articulate their significance.
Reviews
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1991
