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Celebrity gods : new religions, media, and authority in occupied Japan / Benjamin Dorman.

By: Series: Nanzan library of Asian religion and culturePublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (306 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780824837198 (electronic bk.)
  • 0824837193 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Celebrity gods : new religions, media, and authority in occupied Japan.DDC classification:
  • 201/.7095209044 23
LOC classification:
  • BV652.97.J3 D67 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Renmonkyō and the Meiji press -- Deguchi Onisaburō as a prewar model -- The birth of two celebrity gods -- Before Jikōson -- Building a "kingdom of god" -- Bureaucracy, religion, and the press under occupation -- Jikōson and Jiu -- Kitamura Sayo -- New religions and critics in the immediate postwar press.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-287) and index.

Renmonkyō and the Meiji press -- Deguchi Onisaburō as a prewar model -- The birth of two celebrity gods -- Before Jikōson -- Building a "kingdom of god" -- Bureaucracy, religion, and the press under occupation -- Jikōson and Jiu -- Kitamura Sayo -- New religions and critics in the immediate postwar press.

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