2008 2015-05-28 10.17192/mjr.2008.13.3599 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0004-2008-113-35998 keine Angabe Nationale Selbstbehauptung in neuen religiösen Bewegungen in Japan - das Beispiel Kōfuku no Kagaku The combination of national self-assertion with a critical attitude towards ‘modern’ values is not unusual among post-war Japanese New Religions. By taking up the example of Kōfuku no Kagaku I want to raise the question why and how New Religions construct a national identity. In particular, I ask about the role of historiography in that process. The paper examines ‘historical’ comics and writings by the founder Ōkawa Ryūhō with regard to the strategies that are used to convey a Japanese identity and legitimise resulting moral claims. Interestingly, the national image created by this particular historiography is not essentialist, as are the various forms of the so-called Nihonjinron (i.e. discourses on the ‘essence’ of being Japanese). For Ōkawa, national identity is tied to the wider context of an Asian civilisation that rests on a specific set of values (in opposition to a western civilisation), and of a global identity as the basis of Japan’s universal mission.

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Nationale Selbstbehauptung in neuen religiösen Bewegungen in Japan - das Beispiel Kōfuku no Kagaku German https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0004/cover.png Institute for Comparative Cultural Research - Study of Religions and Anthropology Religion Philosophy and theory of religion 1996 1418722-x Periodical urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-00048 Marburg Journal of Religion 1612-2941 Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften und Philosophie Deutschhausstraße 9, 35037 Marburg Marburg Philipps-Universität Marburg 2008 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0004/2008/113/cover.png urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0004-2008-1130 2008-06-01 1 https://doi.org/10.17192/mjr.2008.13.1 Vol 13 No 1 (2008) PeriodicalPart 13 2015-05-28 application/pdf article Monika Schrimpf Schrimpf, Monika The combination of national self-assertion with a critical attitude towards ‘modern’ values is not unusual among post-war Japanese New Religions. By taking up the example of Kōfuku no Kagaku I want to raise the question why and how New Religions construct a national identity. In particular, I ask about the role of historiography in that process. The paper examines ‘historical’ comics and writings by the founder Ōkawa Ryūhō with regard to the strategies that are used to convey a Japanese identity and legitimise resulting moral claims. Interestingly, the national image created by this particular historiography is not essentialist, as are the various forms of the so-called Nihonjinron (i.e. discourses on the ‘essence’ of being Japanese). For Ōkawa, national identity is tied to the wider context of an Asian civilisation that rests on a specific set of values (in opposition to a western civilisation), and of a global identity as the basis of Japan’s universal mission. 2015-05-28 2015-05-28 Universitätsbibliothek Marburg Publikationsserver der Universitätsbibliothek Marburg https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0004/2008/113/3599/3599.png https://doi.org/10.17192/mjr.2008.13.3599 urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0004-2008-113-35998 2008

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