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Belief and Practice in Imperial Japan and Colonial Korea

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Editors:
  1. Emily Anderson

    1. University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

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  • Considers how religion is situated at the intersection of key historical debates in imperial Japan and colonial Korea
  • Situates religious practice and belief at the heart of nation building in East Asia and Japan’s emergence as a modern empire
  • Reflects on current conflicts in the region rooted in the unresolved history of Japan’s colonial and imperial presence in Asia

Part of the book series: Religion and Society in Asia Pacific (RSAP)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
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  2. Finding Religion in Japan’s Empire

    • Trent E. Maxey
    Pages 1-18

  3. State Shinto Policy in Colonial Korea

    • Takaya Kawase
    Pages 19-37

  4. Korean Buddhist Historiography and the Legacies of Japanese Colonialism (1910–1945)

    • Gregory N. Evon
    Pages 39-56

  5. The Adventures of a Japanese Monk in Colonial Korea: Sōma Shōei’s Zen Training with Korean Masters

    • Hwansoo Kim
    Pages 57-77

  6. Eastern Learning Divided: The Split in the Tonghak Religion and the Japanese Annexation of Korea, 1904–1910

    • Carl Young
    Pages 79-99

  7. Between God and Caesar: The Position of the Non-Church Movement in Korea and Japan from 1927 to 1945

    • Kenneth Wells
    Pages 101-118

  8. Developing an Imperial Theology: Transforming “Others” into “Brothers in Christ” for a Multiethnic Empire

    • Emily Anderson
    Pages 119-135

  9. The Question of Quintessence: Buddhism in Wartime Japanese Academia

    • Orion Klautau
    Pages 137-152

  10. Transnational Contexts of Tenrikyo Mission in Korea: Korea, Manchuria, and the United States

    • Akihiro Yamakura
    Pages 153-176

  11. Poch’ŏn’gyo and the Imperial State: Negotiations Between the Spiritual and Secular Governments

    • John Jorgensen
    Pages 177-204

  12. US Occupation Policy on Shinto in Postliberation Korea and Occupied Japan

    • Motokazu Matsutani
    Pages 205-227

  13. Religion in Occupied Japan: The Impact of SCAP’s Policies on Shinto

    • Mark R. Mullins
    Pages 229-248

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 249-258
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About this book

Bringing together the work of leading scholars of religion in imperial Japan and colonial Korea, this collection addresses the complex ways in which religion served as a site of contestation and negotiation among different groups, including the Korean Choson court, the Japanese colonial government, representatives of different religions, and Korean and Japanese societies. It considers the complex religious landscape as well as the intersection of historical and political contexts that shaped the religious beliefs and practices of imperial and colonial subjects, offering a constructive contribution to contemporary conflicts that are rooted in a contested understanding of a complex and painful past and the unresolved history of Japan’s colonial and imperial presence in Asia. Religion is a critical aspect of the current controversies and their historical contexts. Examining the complex and diverse ways that the state, and Japanese and colonial subjects negotiated religious policies, practices, and ministries in an attempt to delineate these “imperial relationships," this cutting edge text sheds considerable light on the precedents to current sources of tension.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Emily Anderson

About the editor

Emily Anderson received her PhD from UCLA in 2010 and from 2010 to 2014 was Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese History at Washington State University (Pullman, WA); in 2014 she was visiting researcher at the New Zealand Asia Institute, University of Auckland. She is the author of Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan: Empire for God (2014).

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