Shinto Nationalism Research Articles

The Failed Prophecy of Shinto Nationalism and the Rise of Japanese Brazilian Catholicism

This article deals with the main religious transition that accomplished the redefinition of Japanese Brazilian identity after the Second World War. State Shinto was the main world view of the Japanese immigrants in Brazil until the 195os, playing a key role in the Japanese resistance of Brazilian acculturation process and in the cognitive dissonance that resulted in the Shindo Renmei movement. The Catholic Church began its proselytizing inside the Japanese community in the 1920s, initially attending to Japanese Catholics and the nisei. After the Second World War the Church participated in the clarification campaigns against Shindo Renmei. With the collapse of Shinto nationalism the missionary activities were especially directed towards the nisei and for that the incorporation of Japanese Catholic symbols proved highly effective. The combination of Japanese and Brazilian Catholic elements represented the development of a hyphenated religiosity, facilitating the trend of Catholic belonging and at the same time offering some cultural continuity.

A Fresh Look at State Shinto

Because of its extreme political sensitivity, the Japanese phenomenon retrospectively called was the object of very little critical study during the State period itself (1868-1945). This was especially true of Japanese scholars; and among foreigners, even Daniel Holtom's excellent work focused too narrowly on the nationalistic roles of shrines. Now that more objective postwar studies are appearing, it is possible to reappraise the place of (a) within the world; and (b) beyond the world, in the larger context of Japanese Within the world, this essay deals particularly with the relationship between and Shrine because of the distressing tendency of Western scholars to confuse, or virtually equate, these two types of during the pre-1945 decades. Granted, there were large areas of overlap between them, but also significant areas of divergence. Moving beyond the world as such, is placed within the broader context of Japanese as a whole. While did in fact serve as one major component of Japanese nationalism, it combined with extraShinto elements (e.g., Confucianistic ethics) under the larger umbrella of (national essence, characteristics). It is more comprehensively accurate, therefore, to speak of kokutai nationalism than of Shinto nationalism. Until such fundamental relationships as these are clarified, research in prewar will inevitably suffer confusions and ambiguities. This article is a quest for orientation in these matters.

Modern Japan and Shinto Nationalism: A Study of Present-Day Trends in Japanese Religions. By D. C. Holtom. (Rev. Ed.) New York: Paragon Book Reprint Corp., 1963. 226. Appendix, Index. $7.50.

Modern Japan and Shinto Nationalism: A Study of Present-Day Trends in Japanese Religions. By D. C. Holtom. (Rev. Ed.) New York: Paragon Book Reprint Corp., 1963. 226. Appendix, Index. $7.50.

Modern Japan and Shinto Nationalism: A Study of Present-Day Trends in Japanese Religions

Modern Japan and Shinto Nationalism: A Study of Present-Day Trends in Japanese Religions Get access Modern Japan and Shinto Nationalism: A Study of Present-Day Trends in Japanese Religions. Edited by D. C. Holtom. 2nd ed. Chicago University Press; Cambridge University Press, 1947. 226 pp. 834′​′×6′​′⁠. 15s. A. L. Sadler A. L. Sadler Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 25, Issue 2, April 1949, Page 240, https://doi.org/10.2307/3017489 Published: 01 April 1949

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:Asian Relations. Being A Report OF THE ProceedINGS OF THE FirstAsian Relations Conference, New DelhiNew Paths FOR Japan. By Harold Wakefield.Modern. Japan and Shinto Nationalism. Revised Edition. By D. C. Holtom.Richer BY Asia. By Edmond Taylor.In THE Path OF Mahatma Gandhi. By George Catlin.From THE League TO U.N. By Gilbert Murray.Negroes IN Britain. By K. L. Little.Alsos. By Samuel A. Goudsmit.Noel Annan.Sydney Olivier: Letters and Selected Writings EDITED BY Margaret Olivier, WITH SOME Impressions BY Bernard Shaw.Charles Roden Buxton. A MEMOIR BY Victoria DE Bunsen.The Development OF Local Government. By W. A. Robson. (Revised and Enlarged Second Edition. Allen and Umwin.Apple OF Discord. By C. M. Woodhouse.Alternative TO Serfdom. By John Maurice Clark.Ordeal BY Planning. By John Jewkes.Malaya and Its History. By Sir Richard O. WINSTEDT.

Modern Japan and Shinto Nationalism: A Study of Present-Day Trends in Japanese Religions. D. C. Holtom

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Book Review: The Pageant of Japanese History, Modern Japan and Shinto Nationalism, Darkness of the Sun

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Modern Japan and Shinto Nationalism.D. C. Holtom

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Modern Japan and Shinto Nationalism: A Study of Present-Day Trends in Japanese Religions. By D. C. Holtom. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1943. Pp. 178. $2.00.) - War and Peace in the Pacific: A Preliminary Report of the Eighth Conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations on Wartime and Post-War Coöperation of the United Nations in the Pacific and the

Modern Japan and Shinto Nationalism: A Study of Present-Day Trends in Japanese Religions. By D. C. Holtom. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1943. Pp. 178. $2.00.) - War and Peace in the Pacific: A Preliminary Report of the Eighth Conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations on Wartime and Post-War Coöperation of the United Nations in the Pacific and the Far East, Mont Tremblant, Quebec, December 4–14, 1942. (New York: International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations. 1943.) - Volume 38 Issue 1

Modern Japan and Shinto Nationalism.

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Modern Japan and Shinto Nationalism. D. C. Holtom

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Modern Japan and Shinto Nationalism.

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Review: Modern Japan and Shinto Nationalism, A Study of Present-Day Trends in Japanese Religions, by D. C. Holtom

Review: <i>Modern Japan and Shinto Nationalism, A Study of Present-Day Trends in Japanese Religions</i>, by D. C. Holtom

Book Review: Modern Japan and Shinto Nationalism.

Book Review: Modern Japan and Shinto Nationalism.

: Modern Japan and Shinto Nationalism, A Study of Present-Day Trends in Japanese Religions . D. C. Holtom.

: Modern Japan and Shinto Nationalism, A Study of Present-Day Trends in Japanese Religions . D. C. Holtom.