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社会学特殊講義ⅩⅤ
Religious Culture in Japanese History (To be taught online via Zoom)
This course is a critical introduction to religious culture in Japanese history from the 8th century to the present. Religions make up a vital part of Japanese culture. You may have noticed in Japan a lot of Shinto festivals (matsuri) and shrines, Buddhist and Confucian temples, as well as Christian churches. In this course, we look into how in history religions became intertwined with Japanese cultural and political life. We will read and discuss how Japanese political and social life shaped the changes of religious doctrines and practices on the one hand and how religious themes and motifs informed historical experience in Japan on the other. Our goal is to appreciate and understand the fact that what we talk about as Japanese culture and religion are not unchanging ideas, doctrines, or institutions but have always been embedded in concrete human struggles both for political and social power and for making sense of human life. As such when you complete this course, you will have gained a deeper understanding of the historical process that gave rise to what is often misleadingly presented as the unique and unchanging Japanese culture.
The course consists of a series of topics about religion from Japanese history. For each class, we will read one or a few essays on these topics prior to class and will have discussion on the topic. No prior knowledge of Japanese language or religions is necessary but you are required to be involved in the course, that is, you will do the reading, participate in class discussion, and conduct research for your final paper. Guest lectures and discussions will be arranged.
The course consists of a series of topics about religion from Japanese history. For each class, we will read one or a few essays on these topics prior to class and will have discussion on the topic. No prior knowledge of Japanese language or religions is necessary but you are required to be involved in the course, that is, you will do the reading, participate in class discussion, and conduct research for your final paper. Guest lectures and discussions will be arranged.
時間割／共通科目コード
コース名
教員
学期
時限
04214355
FLE-HU4Z03L3
社会学特殊講義ⅩⅤ
鍾 以江
金曜2限
マイリストに追加
マイリストから削除
講義使用言語
英語
単位
2
実務経験のある教員による授業科目
NO
他学部履修
可
開講所属
文学部
授業計画
SCHEDULE
Class time: 10:25-11:55.
Week I (April 9): Course Introduction
Week II (April 16): Gods at War and Early State Formation.
**Kojiki, pp.1-133.
Week III (April 23): Buddhism and the Japanese State
**Tanabe, George. “The Founding of Mount Koya and Kukai’s eternal meditation,” in Tanabe, George, jr. ed., Religions of Japan in Practice (Princeton University Press 1999), 354-359.
**Mikael S. Adolphson. The Gates of Power: Monks, Courtiers, and Warriors in Premodern Japan (University of Hawaii Press, 2000), 1-20, 75-124, 346-355.
Week IV (April 30): Warriors and Buddhism in Medieval Japan
**Solomon, Michael. “The Dilemma of Religious Power: Honganji and Hosokawa Masamoto” in Monumenta Nipponica, Vol.33, No.1. (Spring 1978), pp. 51-65.
**Dobbins, James C. “Shinran’s (1173-1262) Faith as Immediate Fulfillment in Pure Land Buddhism,” in Tanabe, George, jr. ed. Religions of Japan in Practice (Princeton University Press 1999), 280-288.
First 3-page report due by email.
Week V (May 7): Christianity in Japan
**"The Evangelical Furnace: Japan's First Encounter with the West," in Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol.2 (Columbia University Press, 2005), 143-155, 165-184.
**Suzuki Shosan. “Ha Kirishitan,” in George Elison, Deus Destroyed: The Image of Christianity in Early Modern Japan (Harvard University Press, 1988), 375-392.
NO CLASS on May 14 (school festival)
Week VI (May 21): Shinto and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan
**Yijiang Zhong. The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan: The Vanquished Gods of Izumo (Bloomsbury, 2016), 1-15, 49-87.
Second 3-page report due by email.
Week VII (May 28): Meiji Transformations
**John Breen, “The Imperial Oath of April 1868: Ritual, Politics and Power in the Restoration” Monumenta Nipponica 51, No.4 (Winter 1996), 407-429.
**Richard Jaffe, "A Refutation of Clerical Marriage" in George J. Tanabe, Jr., edited, Religions of Japan in Practice (Princeton University Press 1999), 78-88.
Week VIII (June 4): Political or Religious, or both, or neither?
**John Breen, ed. Yasukuni, the War Dead, and the Struggle for Japan's Past (Columbia University Press, 2008), 12-21, 71-90, 125-142.
Week IX (June 11): Christianity and Wedding in Contemporary Japan
**Jesse LeFebvre. "Christian Wedding Ceremonies: 'Nonreligiousness' in Contemporary Japan," Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 42/2 (2015), 185-203.
**Michael Fisch, "The Rise of the Chapel Wedding in Japan," Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 28/1-2 (2001), 57-76.
Week X & XI (June 18, June 25): guest lectures by Prof. Yama Yoshiyuki
Week XII & XIII (July 2, July 9): Final paper writing period.
Final paper due July 23 by email.
授業の方法
Lecture and discussion
成績評価方法
Attendance and discussion participation (20%)
Two short report essays (40%)
Final paper (40)
教科書
The instructor will provide all the reading materials.
参考書
none
履修上の注意
Weekly reading amount is 30-50 pages.
