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Shinto and the State, 1868-1988 Paperback - 1991
by Hardacre, Helen
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- Title Shinto and the State, 1868-1988
- Author Hardacre, Helen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition New Ed
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton
- Date 1991
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0691020523I4N10
- ISBN 9780691020525 / 0691020523
- Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.14 x 0.53 in (22.86 x 15.60 x 1.35 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 88035665
- Dewey Decimal Code 322.1
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From the rear cover
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.