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Author Miyamoto, Yuki

Title Beyond the mushroom cloud : commemoration, religion, and responsibility after Hiroshima / Yuki Miyamoto
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (160 pages)
Series 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 How should the horror of the atom bomb be remembered? In what ways might we remember so that the terrible experience of its use might be transformed into hope for a universal community of peace? In a fascinating case study in comparative religion, this book traces the struggle of the hibakusha, the survivors of the 1945 bombings, to make sense of their experiences through an ethic of Gnot retaliation, but reconciliation. G The predominant religious group in Hiroshima was True Pure Land Buddhism. From this sect emerged an account of the bombings in terms of karma, the misdeeds of humansGin the c
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Nuclear warfare -- Moral and ethical aspects
Responsibility -- Case studies -- Social aspects
Collective memory -- Case studies
Peace movements -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi
Responsibility -- Social aspects -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi
Memorials -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi
Collective memory -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi
Atomic bomb victims -- Religious life -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- Japanese.
Collective memory
Ethics
Memorials
Nuclear warfare -- Moral and ethical aspects
Peace movements
Responsibility
Responsibility -- Social aspects
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- Religious life and customs
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects
Japan -- Hiroshima-shi
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780823249312
082324931X