Religion, Power, and the Rise of Shinto in Early Modern Japan

Stefan Köck is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria.Brigitte Pickl-Kolaczia is a doctoral candidate at Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria.Bernhard Scheid is a senior researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria.

• Introduction: Tokugawa Religious Orthopraxy and the Phenomenon of Domain Shinto, Bernhard ScheidPart 1: Tokugawa Orthopraxy1. Anti-Christian Temple Certification (terauke) in Early Modern Japan: Establishment, Practice, and Challenges, Nam-lin Hur (University of British Columbia, Canada)2. Ieyasu’s Posthumous Title and the Tokugawa Discourse on “Divine Country," Sonehara Satoshi (Tohoku University, Japan)Part 2: Unwanted Religious Groups3. Anti-Christian Measures and Religious Institutions in the Nagasaki Port City in the Early Edo Period (1614–1644), Carla Tronu (University of Kyoto, Japan) 4. When the Lotus went Underground: the Nichiren Buddhist Fujufuse Movement and its Early Modern Persecution, Jacqueline I. Stone (Princeton University, USA)5. “Deviant Practices” and “Strange Acts”: Late Tokugawa Judicial Perspectives on Heteropraxy, Kate Wildman Nakai (Sophia University, Japan)Part 3: Intellectual Challenges6. Shinto as a Quasi-Confucian Ideology, Inoue Tomokatsu (Saitama University, Japan)7. Buddhist-Confucian Polemics and the Position of Shinto, W.J. Boot (Leiden University, the Netherlands) 8. Ikeda Mitsumasa and Confucian Ritual, James McMullen (University of Oxford, UK)9. Calendars and Graves: Shibukawa Harumi’s Critique of Hoshina Masayuki and Yamazaki Ansai, Hayashi Makoto (Aichi Gakuin University, Japan) Part 4: Institutional Challenges10. Shinto in the 1660s and 1670s: The Shrine Clauses of 1665 as an Expression of Domain Shinto, Mark Teeuwen (University of Oslo, Norway) 11. Domain Shinto and shinto-uke in Okayama-han, Stefan Köck (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria) 12. “Kami is kami, Buddha is Buddha”: Religious Policies in Mito Domain in the Later 17th Century, Brigitte Pickl-Kolaczia (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria)13. Shinto Priests and the Yoshida in Izumi Province, Yannick Bardy (University of Lille, France) 14. Conflicts over Shrine Priests’ Faith and Affiliation: the Shirakawa, Yoshida, and Hirata Atsutane, Anne Walthall (UC Irvine, USA)Bibliography Index

[T]he expertise brought by the authors provides a valuable resource for scholars of this period, and the diverse topics covered show that the relationship of Shinto with institutional power in the Edo period is multifaceted and does not lend itself to any sort of simple, linear progression building up to the eventual centralization of shrines.