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Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan: Buddhism and Its Persecution

Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan: Buddhism and Its Persecution

Paperback

BuddhismJapanese History

ISBN10: 0691024812
ISBN13: 9780691024813
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Mar 28 1993
Pages: 299
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

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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