Ch. 1 The Making of a Heresy: Anti-Buddhist thought in Tokugawa Japan -- Ch. 2 Of Heretics and Martyrs: Anti-Buddhist Policies and the Meiji Restoration -- Ch. 3 Riles, Rule and Religion: Construction and Destruction of a National Doctrine -- Ch. 4 The reconvening of Babel: Eastern Buddhism and the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions -- Ch. 5 the Making of A History: Buddhism and Historicism in Meiji Japan
Summary
How did Buddhism, so prominent in Japanese life for over a thousand years, become the target of severe persecution in the social and political turmoil of the early Meiji era? How did it survive attacks against it and reconstitute itself as an increasingly articulate and coherent belief system and a bastion of the Japanese national heritage? Here James Ketelaar elucidates not only the development of Buddhism in the late nineteenth century but also the strategies of the Meiji state
Notes
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Chicago) under the title: Of heretics and martyrs. 1987
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-282) and index
