Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1: Categorizing Religion in Early Modern Japan 21
6. Chapter 2: Early Meiji Buddhism and the Shintoist Challenge 42
7. Chapter 3: From “Sectarian Teaching” to “Religion” 66
8. Chapter 4: Western Sources of Knowledge 88
9. Chapter 5: The Long History of Religion’s Opposites: “The Secular” and “Secularization” 114
10. Conclusion 137
11. Appendix: Shimaji Mokurai, “Critique of the Three Standards of Instruction” (1872) 145
12. Notes 157
13. Character Glossary 193
14. Bibliography 201
15. Index 229