RT Article
T1 “Religion” and “Politics”: A Japanese Case
JF Implicit religion
VO 22
IS 3/4
SP 413
OP 428
A1 Horii, Mitsutoshi 1977-
LA English
PB Equinox
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1726271528
AB Timothy Fitzgerald’s The Ideology of Religious Studies should not be  read as something just about “religion,” but about the modern Euro-  American “secularity,” which functions to mystify the colonial matrix  of power of Euro-American modernity. Fitzgerald’s later work focuses  on two mutually parasitic categories of “religion” and “politics.” As a  case study of the Fitzgeraldian perspective, this article examines the  construction of the religion-politics distinction in Japan since the  late nineteenth century. In the latter half of the nineteenth century  the aggression of Euro-American colonial power motivated Japan’s  elites to institutionalize the nation based upon the Euro-American  concepts of “politics” and “religion.” After Japan’s defeat in the Second  World War in 1945, the US-led Allied Occupation redefined prewar  Japanese state orthodoxy and institutions as “religion,” in order  to eliminate them from the post-war Japanese statecraft.
K1 Japan
K1 Timothy Fitzgerald
K1 Mystification
K1 Politics
K1 Secularity
DO 10.1558/imre.41013