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Celebrity gods

Dorman, Benjamin.

Celebrity gods new religions, media, and authority in occupied Japan / [electronic resource] : Benjamin Dorman. - Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (viii, 296 p. ) - Nanzan library of Asian religion and culture . - Nanzan library of Asian religion and culture. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-287) and index.

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.

9780824837198


Mass media--Religious aspects.--Japan
Religion and state--History--Japan--20th century.
Mass media in religion--History--Japan--20th century.


Japan--Religion--20th century.


Electronic books.

BV652.97.J3 / D67 2012

201/.7095209044