An Attempt for Re-interpreting the Controversy on Enshrined Deities of Chosen-Jingu : A Perspective of Modern and Indigenous Factors of Shinto Shrines

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  • 「朝鮮神宮御祭神論争」再解釈の試み : 神社の<土着性>とモダニズムの視点から
  • チョウセン ジングウ ゴ サイジン ロンソウ サイカイシャク ノ ココロミ ジンジャ ノ ドチャクセイ ト モダニズム ノ シテン カラ

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This paper attempt to re-examine the interpretations on the intentions in the enshrined deities of Chosen-Jingu (in 1925) in the preceding studies, and to re-interpret it. The conventional interpretations do not pay sufficient attention to the historical factors, although both Dankun=Chosen National Deity (contention of the Japanese shrine related theorists) and the Imperial ancestral deities (contention of Japanese Government and the Government-General of Korea) derived from the Theory of an Identical Origin about Japanese and Korean in those days. In this paper, I regard this Theory as a modern Invention of Tradition. This paper points out the peculiar position of the occupied Korean Peninsula in the Japanese society as a half continental nation, as the background of that Controversy. Additionally, this paper examines the inter-relation between the peculiarity of Korea and the indigenous character of Jinja-Shinto.

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  • Religion and Society

    Religion and Society 5 (0), 21-38, 1999

    The Japanese Association for the Study of Religion and Society

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