Table of contents : Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Deguchi Onisaburò: Early Life to Oomoto Leadership Chapter 2. Neo-Nativism: Oomoto Views on Mythology, Governance, and Agrarianism Chapter 3. Taishò Spiritualism Chapter 4. Exhibitionist Tendencies: Visual Technologies of Proselytization Chapter 5. Paradoxical Internationalism? Oomoto in the World Chapter 6. A Patriotic Turn and the Second Suppression Conclusion: State, Religion, and Tradition in Imperial Japan Notes Selected Bibliography Index