Rewriting German and Japanese primeval history: a comparative historical analysis of the Takeuchi monjo and 'Himmler's Bible'
This study is concerned with two examples of religious re-interpretation of the origins of a ‘nation' legitimated by a text, respectively a ‘corpus' of material of allegedly ancient origin. The first examples are the Japanese Takeuchi monjo (‘Takeuchi texts'), which propose an extende...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
[2016]
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Religion
Year: 2016, Volume: 46, Issue: 1, Pages: 7-31 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Takeuchi monjo
/ Japan
/ Shintoism
/ Nationalism
/ Prehistoric religion
/ Historiography
/ Manipulation
/ Germany
/ Ura-Linda-Chronik
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BN Shinto KBB German language area KBM Asia |
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| Summary: | This study is concerned with two examples of religious re-interpretation of the origins of a ‘nation' legitimated by a text, respectively a ‘corpus' of material of allegedly ancient origin. The first examples are the Japanese Takeuchi monjo (‘Takeuchi texts'), which propose an extended and amended variant of the official ‘State Shintō' and its version of history and became the centre of a small ultra-nationalistic religious movement at the beginning of the 20th century. The second example is a text which was once labelled ‘Himmler's bible', the so-called Oera Linda Boek or Ura Linda Chronik, as it was introduced by its main German interpreter and exegete Herman Wirth in the 1930s. In both cases the texts overturn the view of history and mankind through insights into a so-far undetected prehistory. |
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| ISSN: | 0048-721X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2015.1030796 |