Rethinking Yasukuni
From Secular Politics to Religious Sacrifice
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Yasukuni is a Shintoist shrine where imperial Japan'swar dead areenshrined. It has become an increasingly notoriouslocation over thelast five decades because it houses, among its 2.5million deities,the spirits of a dozen Class-A war criminals. Despitethis fact,regardless of constitutional bans, and in the face ofa reproachfulnational and international audience, a number ofJapanese primeministers have insisted on presenting offeringsthere. "RethinkingYasukuni - From Secular Politics to ReligiousSacrifice" is the firstEnglish-written monograph that examines the shrine as apredominantly religious...
Yasukuni is a Shintoist shrine where imperial Japan'swar dead areenshrined. It has become an increasingly notoriouslocation over thelast five decades because it houses, among its 2.5million deities,the spirits of a dozen Class-A war criminals. Despitethis fact,regardless of constitutional bans, and in the face ofa reproachfulnational and international audience, a number ofJapanese primeministers have insisted on presenting offeringsthere. "RethinkingYasukuni - From Secular Politics to ReligiousSacrifice" is the firstEnglish-written monograph that examines the shrine as apredominantly religious location. This publication isalso based onone of the few anthropological fieldworks that hasbeen carried outat Yasukuni, and thus offers novel ethnographicinsights. Moreover,because it attempts to approach the shrine from anevolutionary andcognitive point of view, "Rethinking Yasukuni"touches on key issuesin the current history of religions.
