Japanese Confucianism - A Cultural History

This book charts the history of Confucianism in Japan to offer new perspectives on the sociology of Confucianiam across East Asia.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Confucianism as cultural capital: mid-first millennium AD - late sixteenth century AD; 2. Confucianism as religion, 1580s-1720s; 3. Confucianism as public sphere, 1720s-1868; 4. Confucianism as knowledge, 1400s-1800s; 5. Confucianism as liberalism, 1850s-1890s; 6. Confucianism as fascism, 1868-1945; 7. Confucianism as taboo, 1945-2015; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Kiri Paramore is University Lecturer in Japanese History at Leiden University. He studied Asian History at the Australian National University (BAS Hons, 1999) and worked for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade before moving to Japan to study Area Studies and Intellectual History at the University of Tokyo (MA 2003, PhD 2006). He has been awarded research fellowships from the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy at Academia Sinica, Taipei, where he was Visiting Research Professor from 2011–12. His first book was Ideology and Christianity in Japan (2009).

Summary

In an illuminating and provocative new study, Kiri Paramore evaluates the dynamics of Japanese Confucianism within a historical context to reveal its many cultural manifestations, as a religion and as a political tool, and as social capital and public discourse, as well as its role in international relations and statecraft.

Product details

• Authors: Kiri Paramore, Kiri (Universiteit Leiden) Paramore, Paramore Kiri
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9781107058651
• ISBN: 978-1-107-05865-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: New Approaches to Asian Histor; New Approaches to Asian History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, RELIGION / Confucianism, Social and cultural history, Asian History, Religious groups: social & cultural aspects, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Confucianism