Overseas Shinto Shrines

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Religion, Secularity and the Japanese Empire

By Karli Shimizu

Series: Bloomsbury Shinto Studies

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Overseas Shinto Shrines offers a detailed examination of Shinto shrines established beyond Japan between 1868 and 1945, exploring their role in Japanese imperialism and the colonisation of territories across the Asia-Pacific region and the Americas. Through extensive primary research and fieldwork, the book argues that these shrines were presented largely as secular sites within an invented Japanese secularism, serving to reshape perceptions of space, time, and ethics among imperial subjects. This study illuminates how the modern state utilised religion and secularism as tools of governance and identity construction.
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This book is ideal for students and scholars of religion, Asian history, colonial studies, and modern political theory, alongside readers interested in the intersections of secularism, nationalism, and religion in state formation.

Uses postcolonial theories of secularism to explain how modern overseas Shinto shrines facilitated the colonization and modernization of new Japanese lands and subjects.

Uses postcolonial theories of secularism to explain how modern overseas Shinto shrines facilitated the colonization and modernization of new Japanese lands and subjects.

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Through extensive use of primary resources and fieldwork, this detailed study examines overseas Shinto shrines and their complex role in the colonisation and modernisation of newly Japanese lands and subjects.

Shinto shrines became one of the most visible symbols of Japanese imperialism in the early 20th century. From 1868 to 1945, shrines were constructed by both the government and Japanese migrants across the Asia-Pacific region, from Sakhalin to Taiwan, and from China to the Americas. Drawing on theories about the constructed nature of the modern categories of ‘religion’ and the ‘secular’, this book argues that modern Shinto shrines were largely conceived and treated as secular sites within a newly invented Japanese secularism, and that they played an important role in communicating changed conceptions of space, time, and ethics in imperial subjects.

Providing an example of the invention of a non-Western secularity, Overseas Shinto Shrines contributes to our understanding of the relationship between religion, secularism, and the construction of the modern state.

Series: Bloomsbury Shinto Studies

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Overseas Shinto Shrines

By Karli Shimizu

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Praised for its well-researched and comprehensive approach, this book engages with complex debates on the boundary between secular patriotic ritual and religious practice. Reviews highlight its significant contribution to Shinto studies, Asian studies, and modern history, as well as its value as a resource for courses on religion, law, politics, colonialism, migration, and globalisation. The narrative is noted for being clear, accessible, and engaging for both students and non-specialists. Ellen Van Goethem, Professor of Japanese History, Kyushu University, commends it as the first full-length study of overseas Shinto shrines and their role in shaping multiethnic Japanese secularity.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350234987

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 06 October 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Illustration: 10 bw illus

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 166.0mm

Height: 238.0mm

Weight: 600g

Pages: 296

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History & Archaeology History & Military Karli Shimizu Non-Fiction Religion & Spirituality Series: Bloomsbury Shinto Studies

About the Author

Karli Shimizu is an affiliated researcher at the Research Faculty of Media and Communication of Hokkaido University, Japan.

Overseas Shinto Shrines