Are Public Commemorations in Contemporary Japan Post-secular?
This paper asks whether public commemorations in contemporary Japan are post-secular or not. More precisely, it investigates the postwar history of the relationship between such commemorations and the principle of keeping religion and government separate, as embodied in the constitution. Referring t...
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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2016
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Journal of Religion in Japan
Ano: 2016, Volume: 5, Número: 2/3, Páginas: 136-152 |
| (Cadeias de) Palavra- chave padrão: | B
Nationalfriedhof Chidorigafuchi (Tokio)
/ Yasukuni-Schrein
/ Memória
/ Secularização
/ Religião oficial
/ História 1945-2016
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| Classificações IxTheo: | AD Sociologia da religião AZ Nova religião BN Xintoísmo KBM Ásia KCD Hagiografia TK Período contemporâneo XA Direito |
| Outras palavras-chave: | B
Commemorations
separation of religion and government
Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery
Yasukuni Shrine
secularization
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| Resumo: | This paper asks whether public commemorations in contemporary Japan are post-secular or not. More precisely, it investigates the postwar history of the relationship between such commemorations and the principle of keeping religion and government separate, as embodied in the constitution. Referring to several contemporary cases, I provide an overview of the discourses and actual conditions of the separation of religion and state at Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery (Chidorigafuchi Kokuritsu Senbotsusha Boen 千鳥ヶ淵国立戦没者墓苑) and Yasukuni Shrine (Yasukuni Jinja 靖国神社). In conclusion, I point out on one hand that the non-denominational expressions seen in Chidorigafuchi and other facilities show a distinctive kind of religious expression. On the other hand, I underscore that the excessive avoidance of religious participation by government officials derives from the Yasukuni issue and related legal trials. I explain the relationship of those phenomena in terms of two types of secularization: natural secularization and artificial secularization. |
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| Descrição Física: | Online-Ressource |
| ISSN: | 2211-8349 |
| Obras secundárias: | In: Journal of Religion in Japan
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22118349-00502004 |
