What even is religion, when you get down to it? Why do we treat religion the way that we do? And when our modern notions of religion came up against an empire whose very legitimacy was based on a religious myth, how did those tensions play out?
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Shimizu, Karli. Overseas Shinto Shrines: Religion, Secularity and the Japanese Empire
Rots, Aike P. “Public Shrine Forests? Shinto, Immanence, and Discursive Secularization.” Japan Review, no. 30 (2017)
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