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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Categorizing Religion in Early Modern Japan
Chapter 2: Early Meiji Buddhism and the Shintoist Challenge
Chapter 3: From “Sectarian Teaching” to “Religion”
Chapter 4: Western Sources of Knowledge
Chapter 5: The Long History of Religion’s Opposites: “The Secular” and “Secularization”
Conclusion
Appendix: Shimaji Mokurai, “Critique of the Three Standards of Instruction” (1872)
Notes
Character Glossary
Bibliography
Index