Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan Buddhism and Its Persecution
Synopsis
How did Buddhism, so prominent in Japanese life for over a thousand years, become the target of severe persecution in the social and political turmoil of the early Meiji era? How did it survive attacks against it and reconstitute itself as an increasingly articulate and coherent belief system and a bastion of the Japanese national heritage? Here James Ketelaar elucidates not only the development of Buddhism in the late nineteenth century but also the strategies of the Meiji state.Book details
- Author:
- James Edward Ketelaar
- ISBN:
- 9780691024813
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780691055992
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- Pages:
- N/A
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- No
- Date of addition:
- 2017-09-20
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 1993
- Copyright by:
- Princeton University Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction