The Resource Celebrity gods : new religions, media, and authority in occupied Japan, Benjamin Dorman
Celebrity gods : new religions, media, and authority in occupied Japan, Benjamin Dorman
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- Summary
- Celebrity Gods explores the interaction of new religions and the media in postwar Japan. It focuses on the leaders and founders (kyōsō) of Jiu and Tenshō Kōtai Jingū Kyō, two new religions of Japan's immediate postwar period that received substantial press attention. Jiu was linked to the popular prewar group Ōmotokyō, and its activities were based on the millennial visions of its leader, a woman called Jikōson. When Jiu attracted the legendary sumo champion Futabayama to its cause, Jikōson and her activities became a widely-covered cause célèbre in the press. Tenshō Kōtai Jingū Kyō (labeled odoru shūkyō, "the dancing religion," by the press) was led by a farmer's wife, Kitamura Sayo. Her uncompromising vision and actions toward creating a new society--one that was far removed from what she described as the "maggot world" of postwar Japan--drew harsh and often mocking criticism from the print media. Looking back for precursors to the postwar relationship of new religions and media, Benjamin Dorman explores the significant role that the Japanese media traditionally played in defining appropriate and acceptable social behavior, acting at times as mouthpieces for government and religious authorities. Using the cases of Renmonkyō in the Meiji era and Ōmotokyō in the Taishō and Shōwa eras, Dorman shows how accumulated images of new religions in pre-1945 Japan became absorbed into those of the immediate postwar period. Given the lack of formal religious education in Japan, the media played an important role in transmitting notions of acceptable behavior to the public. He goes on to characterize the leaders of these groups as "celebrity gods," demonstrating that the media, which were generally untrained in religious history or ideas, chose to fashion them as "celebrities" whose antics deserved derision. While the prewar media had presented other kyōsō as the antithesis of decent, moral citizens who stood in opposition to the aims of the state, postwar media reports presented them primarily as unfit for democratic society. Celebrity Gods delves into an under-studied era of religious history: the Allied Occupation and the postwar period up to the early 1950s. It is an important interdisciplinary work that considers relations between Japanese and Occupation bureaucracies and the groups in question, and uses primary source documents from Occupation archives and interviews with media workers and members of religious groups. For observers of postwar Japan, this research provides a roadmap to help understand issues relating to the Aum Shinrikyō affair of the 1990s
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (306 pages)
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780824837198
- Label
- Celebrity gods : new religions, media, and authority in occupied Japan
- Title
- Celebrity gods
- Title remainder
- new religions, media, and authority in occupied Japan
- Statement of responsibility
- Benjamin Dorman
- Subject
-
- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Gaia & Earth Energies
- Besatzungsmacht
- Electronic books
- HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century
- History
- Japan
- Japan
- Japan
- Japan -- Religion -- 20th century
- Mass media -- Japan -- Religious aspects
- Mass media -- Religious aspects
- Mass media in religion
- Mass media in religion -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
- Massenmedien
- Medienpublizistik
- Neue Religion
- Neue Religiosität
- RELIGION -- Christianity | General
- Religion
- Religion
- Religion and state
- Religion and state -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
- Religionspolitik
- 1900-1999
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Celebrity Gods explores the interaction of new religions and the media in postwar Japan. It focuses on the leaders and founders (kyōsō) of Jiu and Tenshō Kōtai Jingū Kyō, two new religions of Japan's immediate postwar period that received substantial press attention. Jiu was linked to the popular prewar group Ōmotokyō, and its activities were based on the millennial visions of its leader, a woman called Jikōson. When Jiu attracted the legendary sumo champion Futabayama to its cause, Jikōson and her activities became a widely-covered cause célèbre in the press. Tenshō Kōtai Jingū Kyō (labeled odoru shūkyō, "the dancing religion," by the press) was led by a farmer's wife, Kitamura Sayo. Her uncompromising vision and actions toward creating a new society--one that was far removed from what she described as the "maggot world" of postwar Japan--drew harsh and often mocking criticism from the print media. Looking back for precursors to the postwar relationship of new religions and media, Benjamin Dorman explores the significant role that the Japanese media traditionally played in defining appropriate and acceptable social behavior, acting at times as mouthpieces for government and religious authorities. Using the cases of Renmonkyō in the Meiji era and Ōmotokyō in the Taishō and Shōwa eras, Dorman shows how accumulated images of new religions in pre-1945 Japan became absorbed into those of the immediate postwar period. Given the lack of formal religious education in Japan, the media played an important role in transmitting notions of acceptable behavior to the public. He goes on to characterize the leaders of these groups as "celebrity gods," demonstrating that the media, which were generally untrained in religious history or ideas, chose to fashion them as "celebrities" whose antics deserved derision. While the prewar media had presented other kyōsō as the antithesis of decent, moral citizens who stood in opposition to the aims of the state, postwar media reports presented them primarily as unfit for democratic society. Celebrity Gods delves into an under-studied era of religious history: the Allied Occupation and the postwar period up to the early 1950s. It is an important interdisciplinary work that considers relations between Japanese and Occupation bureaucracies and the groups in question, and uses primary source documents from Occupation archives and interviews with media workers and members of religious groups. For observers of postwar Japan, this research provides a roadmap to help understand issues relating to the Aum Shinrikyō affair of the 1990s
- Action
- digitized
- Cataloging source
- E7B
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Dorman, Benjamin
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Nanzan library of Asian religion and culture
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Mass media in religion
- Religion and state
- Mass media
- Japan
- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
- RELIGION
- HISTORY
- Mass media in religion
- Mass media
- Religion
- Religion and state
- Japan
- Besatzungsmacht
- Medienpublizistik
- Neue Religion
- Religionspolitik
- Japan
- Religion
- Neue Religiosität
- Massenmedien
- Japan
- Label
- Celebrity gods : new religions, media, and authority in occupied Japan, Benjamin Dorman
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-287) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- ocn861528190
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (306 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780824837198
- Lccn
- 2011022202
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt62qvnt
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)861528190
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
- Label
- Celebrity gods : new religions, media, and authority in occupied Japan, Benjamin Dorman
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-287) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- ocn861528190
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (306 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780824837198
- Lccn
- 2011022202
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt62qvnt
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)861528190
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Subject
- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Gaia & Earth Energies
- Besatzungsmacht
- Electronic books
- HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century
- History
- Japan
- Japan
- Japan
- Japan -- Religion -- 20th century
- Mass media -- Japan -- Religious aspects
- Mass media -- Religious aspects
- Mass media in religion
- Mass media in religion -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
- Massenmedien
- Medienpublizistik
- Neue Religion
- Neue Religiosität
- RELIGION -- Christianity | General
- Religion
- Religion
- Religion and state
- Religion and state -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
- Religionspolitik
- 1900-1999
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