Religion in Modern Asia: Tradition, State and Society Michael Bathgate Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus Course Reader no. 10

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Religion in Modern Asia: Tradition,

State and Society

Michael Bathgate

Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus

Course Reader no. 10

2013 

Religion in Modern Asia: Tradition, State and Society

Introduction

Part I: Imagining A Usable Past

Bruce Cumings

Bruce Cumings, intro. Ruediger Frank, “North Korea’s Dynastic

Succession,” The Asia-Pacific Journal 10.9.1, February 27, 2012.

Brian Victoria

Brian Victoria, “Karma, War and Inequality in Twentieth Century Japan,”

The Asia-Pacific Journal, May 15, 2007.

Brian Victoria

Brian Victoria, “Buddhism and Disasters: From World War II to

Fukushima,” The Asia-Pacific Journal 10.11.7, March 12, 2012.

Shoko YONEYAMA

Shoko Yoneyama, “Life-world: Beyond Fukushima and Minamata,” The

Asia-Pacific Journal 10.42.2, October 15, 2012.

H. Byron Earhart

H. Byron Earhart, ”Mount Fuji: Shield of War, Badge of Peace,” The AsiaPacific Journal 9.20.1, May 16, 2011.

Saeyoung PARK

Saeyoung Park, “National Heroes and Monuments in South Korea:

Patriotism, Modernization and Park Chung Hee’s Remaking of Yi Sunsin’s

Shrine,” The Asia-Pacific Journal 10.24.3, June 14, 2010.

 

Part II: Imagining Community in a Changing World

MIYAZAWA Kenji

Miyazawa Kenji, trans. and intro. Roger Pulvers, postscript by Jane Marie

Law, “Indra’s Net: The Spiritual Universe of Miyazawa Kenji,” The AsiaPacific Journal 10.43.4, October 25, 2010.

Cemil Aydin and Michael Penn

Cemil Aydin, interview by Michael Penn, “Imperial Japan’s Islamic Policies

and Anti-Westernism,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, December 22, 2007.

Vladimir Tikhonov

Vladimir Tikhonov, “South Korea’s Christian Military Chaplaincy in the

Korean War: Religion as Ideology?,” The Asia-Pacific Journal 11.18.1, May

6, 2013.

KAWAKAMI Yasunori

Kawakami Yasunori, “Local Mosques and the Lives of Muslims in Japan,”

The Asia-Pacific Journal, May 30, 2007.

CHIRI Yukie

Chiri Yukie, trans. and intro. Kyoko Selden, “The Song the Owl God

Himself Sang: ‘Silver Droplets Fall Fall All Around,’ An Ainu Tale,” The

Asia-Pacific Journal 9.4.5, January 24, 2009.

Andre Vltchek

Andre Vltchek, “Jihad, Orthodox Islam and Religious Intolerance in

Indonesia,” The Asia-Pacific Journal 9.7.2, February 9, 2009. 

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Mark Selden

Mark Selden, “Japan, the United States and Yasukuni Nationalism: War,

Historical Memory and the Future of the Asia Pacific,” The Asia-Pacific

Journal, September 10, 2008.

TANAKA Nobumasa

Tanaka Nobumasa, trans. Vanessa B. Ward, “The Dead Must Not Be

Abused: Yasakuni Shrine, the Prime Minister and the Constitution,” n.d.

John Breen

John Breen, “Popes, Bishops and War Criminals: Reflections on Catholics

and Yasukuni in Post-War Japan,” The Asia-Pacific Journal 10.9.3, March 1,

2010.

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