Title Beyond the mushroom cloud : commemoration, religion, and responsibility after Hiroshima / Yuki Miyamoto

Edition First edition Published New York : Fordham University Press, [2012] ©2012

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Description xiv, 233 pages ; 24 cm Series Bordering religions : concepts, conflicts, and conversations Bordering religions. Contents Introduction: The Ethics of Commemoration -- pt. 1. Commemoration -- Toward a Community of Memory -- Dialogue with the Dead : The Yasukuni Shinto Shrine and Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park -- pt. 2. Religious Interpretations -- Beyond Good and Evil : Koji Shigenobu and the True Pure Land Understanding of the Atomic Bombing -- Sacrificial Lambs : Nagai Takashi and the Roman Catholic Interpretation of the Bombing -- pt. 3. Responsibility -- Women in Atomic Bomb Narratives : Hagiography, Alterity, and Non-Nomological Ethics -- Postscript: After Too Many Mushroom Clouds -- Afterword Summary This monograph explores the ethics and religious sensibilities of a group of the hibakusha (survivors) of 1945's atomic bombings. To this end, the methodology Miyamoto employs is moral hermeneutics, interpreting testimonies, public speeches, and films as texts, with interlocutors such as Avishai Margalit (philosopher), Sueki Fumihiko (Buddhist philosopher), Nagai Takashi (lay Catholic thinker), and Shinran (the founder of True Pure Land Buddhism). --from publisher description Notes Formerly CIP. Uk Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-225) and index Subject Atomic bomb victims -- Religious life -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi. Collective memory -- Case studies. Collective memory -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi. Memorials -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi. Nuclear warfare -- Moral and ethical aspects. Peace movements -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi. Nuclear warfare -- Religious aspects. Responsibility -- Social aspects -- Case studies. Reconciliation -- Religious aspects. Responsibility -- Social aspects -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi. Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects. Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945. Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- Religious life and customs. Genre/Form Case studies. LC no. 2011038986 ISBN 0823240509 (cloth : alk. paper) 0823240517 (paperback: alk. paper) 9780823240500 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780823240517 (paperback: alk. paper)

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