Meiji Prison Religion: Benevolent Punishments and the National Creed
This article examines the origins of prison proselytization in Japan in the 1870s and 1880s by exploring the relationship between the Great Promulgation Campaign (daikyō senpu undō 大教宣布運動) and the development of a modern carceral system. It argues that prison chaplaincy (kyōkai 教誨) developed as the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2019]
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Journal of Religion in Japan
Year: 2019, Volume: 7, Issue: 3, Pages: 219-249 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Meiji reform
/ Imprisonment
/ Prisoner
/ Conversion (Religion, Motiv)
/ Buddhism
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion KBM Asia |
| Further subjects: | B
Chaplaincy
B prison religion B Religion and state B Shin Buddhism B Meiji Restoration |
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