The Notion of Shūyō and Conceptualizing the Future of Religion at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
This article argues that the term shūyō was developed as a new conceptual category imbued with religious undertones, particularly in response to the views of Inoue Tetsujirō regarding the future of religion as expressed in his notion of "ethical religion" (rinriteki shūkyō), and specific c...
| Published in: | Religious studies in Japan |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Japanese Association for Religious Studies
2018
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Religious studies in Japan
Year: 2018, Volume: 4, Pages: 65-90 |
| Further subjects: | B
ethical religion
B self cultivation B Moral Education B Religious Evolution B Inoue Tetsujirō B religious reformers |
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| Summary: | This article argues that the term shūyō was developed as a new conceptual category imbued with religious undertones, particularly in response to the views of Inoue Tetsujirō regarding the future of religion as expressed in his notion of "ethical religion" (rinriteki shūkyō), and specific critiques directed toward Inoue by contemporaneous religious reformers. There were two contradictory movements at the turn of the twentieth century: one that advocated the separation of "religion" and "education," and the other that viewed religion as necessary to successfully construct an ethical education. It was in this dynamic that Inoue and other religious thinkers contemplated new possibilities for religion. Religious thinkers criticized the abstract nature of the "ethical religion" theory and attempted to construct a more practice-based form of "ethical religion" under the conceptual framework of shūyō, in which insights and ideals expressed by religious figures and founder figures, as well as concrete practices such as zazen, were emphasized. The notion of shūyō was used by various thinkers and had a wide range of influence in prewar Japan as a category that transcended the boundaries of "ethics" and "religion" and went beyond various forms of religion. |
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| ISSN: | 2186-9952 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious studies in Japan
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