Creating Modern Japanese Subjects: Morning Rituals from Norito to News and Weather

Journal Title: Religions - Year 2016, Vol 7, Issue 3

Abstract

This original research on Restoration Shinto Norito seeks to explain the rhetorical devices used in the composition of a morning prayer ritual text. The nativist scholar, Hirata Atsutane, crafted this ritual to create a Japanese imperial subject with a particular understanding of native identity and national unity, appropriate to the context of a Japan in the shadow of impending modernity and fear of Western domination. The conclusions drawn concerning Hirata’s rhetoric are meant to inform our understanding of the technique and power of the contemporary Japanese morning television viewing ritual used to create post-modern Japanese citizens with an identity and unity appropriate to a global secular context.

Authors and Affiliations

Wilburn Hansen

Keywords

Related Articles

At Home with Durga: The Goddess in a Palace and Corporeal Identity in Rituparno Ghosh’s Utsab

In this article, I examine the representational strategies used to visualize the pratima (deity) of the Hindu goddess, Durga, as a paradigm of time, memory, and corporeal identity, in Rituparno Ghosh’s 2000 Bengali fil...

Notions of Female Authority in Modern Shi’i Thought

The dominant Shi‟i gender discourse has undergone major shifts in recent years, resulting in revisions of various jurisprudential rulings on women‟s rights and status. Among such shifts, there have been rulings on fema...

Antichrist as (Anti)Charisma: Reflections on Weber and the ‘Son of Perdition’

The figure of Antichrist, linked in recent US apocalyptic thought to President Barack Obama, forms a central component of Christian end-times scenarios, both medieval and modern. Envisioned as a false-messiah, deceptiv...

“What Is This Love That Loves Us?”: Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder as a Phenomenology of Love

Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder (2013) considers the relationship of Divine Love with the individual soul, and its corresponding relationships to the other as neighbor. In this article, I analyze the congruency of Mali...

You Can’t Beat Relating with God for Spiritual Well-Being: Comparing a Generic Version with the Original Spiritual Well-Being Questionnaire Called SHALOM

The Spiritual Health And Life-Orientation Measure (SHALOM) is a 20-item instrument that assesses the quality of relationships of the respondent with self, others, the environment and/or a Transcendent Other. In the Tra...

Download PDF file
  • EP ID EP25525
  • DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/rel7030028
  • Views 313
  • Downloads 7

How To Cite

Wilburn Hansen (2016). Creating Modern Japanese Subjects: Morning Rituals from Norito to News and Weather. Religions, 7(3), -. https://europub.co.uk./articles/-A-25525