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Chapter 4: Western Sources of Knowledge

  • Hans Martin Kramer
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Shimaji Mokurai and the Reconception of Religion and the Secular in Modern Japan
This chapter is in the book Shimaji Mokurai and the Reconception of Religion and the Secular in Modern Japan
© University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu

© University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu

Chapters in this book

  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
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824857219-006

Chapters in this book

  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
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