Of heretics and martyrs in Meiji Japan : Buddhism and its persecution
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Of heretics and martyrs in Meiji Japan : Buddhism and its persecution
Princeton University Press, 1993, c1990
[1st pbk. ed.]
- : pbk
Available at 30 libraries
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"First Princeton paperback printing, 1993"--T.p. verso
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Chicago) under the title: Of heretics and martyrs. 1987
Bibliography: p. [275]-282
Includes index
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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.
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