Celebrity Gods: New Religions, Media, and Authority in Occupied Japan 9780824837198
Celebrity Gods explores the interaction of new religions and the media in postwar Japan. It focuses on the leaders and f
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English Pages 304 Year 2012
Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Renmonkyō and the Meiji Press
2. Deguchi Onisaburō as a Prewar Model
3. The Birth of Two Celebrity Gods
4. Bureaucracy, Religion, and the Press under the Occupation
5. Jikōson and Jiu Battling with Celebrity
6. Kitamura Sayo Celebrity in the Maggot World
7. New Religions and Critics in the Immediate Postwar Press
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Renmonkyō and the Meiji Press
2. Deguchi Onisaburō as a Prewar Model
3. The Birth of Two Celebrity Gods
4. Bureaucracy, Religion, and the Press under the Occupation
5. Jikōson and Jiu Battling with Celebrity
6. Kitamura Sayo Celebrity in the Maggot World
7. New Religions and Critics in the Immediate Postwar Press
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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