The Invention of a New Religion: Origins, Rituals, and Belief Systems – Paperback

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by Basil Hall Chamberlain (Author)

Basil Chamberlain was a professor at the Tokyo Imperial University. He wrote some of the earliest translations of haikus. His best known work is the encyclopedia Things Japanese. This was a popular one volume informal discussion of Japanese written in 1890. Chamberlain begins this pamphlet by saying, “Mikado-worship and Japan-worship–for that is the new Japanese religion–is, of course, no spontaneously generated phenomenon. Every manufacture presupposes a material out of which it is made, every present a past on which it rests. But the twentieth-century Japanese religion of loyalty and patriotism is quite new, for in it pre-existing ideas have been sifted, altered, freshly compounded, turned to new uses, and have found a new centre of gravity.”

Number of Pages: 48 Dimensions: 0.1 x 9.25 x 7.5 IN Publication Date: January 28, 2008

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