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time and place, and that the claims I make are necessarily contingent on the concepts and categories I have available to me in this historical moment. Japanese Religions and Globalization. By Ugo Dessi. Routledge, London, 2013. vi, 191 pages. $135.00, cloth; $135.00, E-book. Reviewed by Yuki Miyamoto DePaul University The year 2013 marked the sixty-second rebuilding of the inner and outer shrines at Ise Grand Shrine since its inception 1,300 years ago and the fourth since 1945 when Kokka Shinto (State Shinto) was dissolved.1 The ¯ ¯ ritual of reconstruction, repeated every 20 years, culminates in a ceremony called sengyo no gi, presided over by the high priestess of Ise.2 What should be noted here is that, for the first time since 1929,3 the 2013 ceremony saw in attendance Japan's prime minister, Abe Shinzo; vice prime minister (and ¯ Christian) Aso Taro; and seven other politicians from the Abe administra¯ ¯ tion. Their presence at the ceremony appears to violate the constitution for its political use of religion and thus demands critical scrutiny.4 But such close relations between a political entity and (Imperial) Shinto is hardly ¯ new5; one need only note the continuing controversy surrounding Yasukuni 1.
The Journal of Japanese Studies – Society for Japanese Studies
Published: Jul 19, 2014
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