“Religion” and “Politics”: A Japanese Case
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 para...
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| Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Articolo |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
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Equinox
[2020]
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| In: |
Implicit religion
Anno: 2020, Volume: 22, Fascicolo: 3/4, Pagine: 413-428 |
| (sequenze di) soggetti normati: | B
Fitzgerald, Timothy 1947-, The ideology of religious studies
/ Japan
/ Religione
/ Concetto
/ Politica
/ Postocolonialismo
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| Notazioni IxTheo: | AD Sociologia delle religioni KBM Asia ZC Politica generale |
| Altre parole chiave: | B
Secularity
B Japan B Mystification B Politics B Timothy Fitzgerald |
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| Riepilogo: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1697 |
| Comprende: | Enthalten in: Implicit religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/imre.41013 |