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...Amy Borovoy Abstract This article explores Robert Bellah's engagement with Japan in formulating his communitarian critique of American individualism. Bellah's early contribution to post–World War II modernization studies, Tokugawa Religion: The Cultural Roots of Modern Japan , embraced the Weberian...

... by passing to major involvement with larger societies and the modern world. It is not a common condition, to be sure, and has recently been discounted. “Millenialism,” observes Bellah, “… could contribute only under very special conditions to social innovation, for it was usually a symptom of severe social...

...-century confrontation with Republican China, without understanding the inherent nationalist applications of these formulations. Current scholarly approaches to Confucianism trace a history through Japanese-influenced U.S. scholars of the mid-twentieth century like Robert Bellah to Japanese imperialist...

...H. D. Harootunian Tokugawa Religion . By Robert N. Bellah . Glencoe, Ill. : The Free Press , 1957 . ix , 249 . $5.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 BOOK REVIEWS 329 thor's critical comments following each item of Japan and Korea will be deeply...

.... BELLAH. Glencoe, 111.: The Free Press, 1957. ix, 249. $5.00. and enl. ed., Cambridge, Mass., 1954), and With interest increasing among scholars in from then supplementing that information by the problem of Japan's modernization, it seems going through the bibliographical lists pub- especially appropriate...

...Robert N. Bellah Abstract It has become customary among many Western scholars to consider Japan as part of an East Asian cultural area, or as a participant in Chinese or Sinic civilization. In a general conception of Asian culture viewed as consisting of East Asian, South Asian, and Middle Eastern...

... topics are covered in the collection of essays that appeared under the title Beyond Belief ( New York : Harper & Row , 1970 ). For an excellent study which takes issue with many aspects of Bellah's analysis, see Winston Davis, “Civil Religion in Japan” (Univ. of Chicago Ph.D. diss., 1973...

...J. Victor Koschmann Pacifism in Japan: The Christian and Socialist Tradition . Edited by Nobuya Bamba and John F. Howes . Foreword by Robert N. Bellah. Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press , 1978 . xx, 300 pp. Japanese Personal Names, Contributors, Notes, Index. $22.00 cloth...

... at length on how central value systems relate to economic modernization. Robert Bellah elegantly applied these ideas to Japan in his classic Tokugawa Religion (Boston: Beacon Press, 1957). A conference volume, Changing Japanese Attitudes Toward Modernization (Marius Jansen, ed., Princeton, N.J.: Princeton...

...Joseph M. Kitagawa Religion and Progress in Modern Asia . Edited by Robert N. Bellah . New York : The Free Press . London: Collier-Macmillan Ltd., 1965 . 246 , Bibliography, Index, n.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 BOOK REVIEWS 501 wing...

..., such as the way that pre-Communist Vietnamese traditions, along with patterns of veneration of Communist leaders in other countries, fused in the deification of this Southeast Asian leader. The section ends with an essay by Princeton anthropologist A my B orovoy on Robert Bellah, an American sociologist...

...Richard T. Chang Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963 Meiji ishinshi no mondaiten (Problems in the History of the Meiji Restoration) . Edited by Sakata Yoshio . Tokyo : Miraisha , 1962 . 420 . ¥1,200. BOOK REVIEWS 331 It may very well be that Bellah...

... ( Stanford , 1959 ). 3. Bellah Robert N. , Tokugawa Religion ( Glencoe , 1957 ). 4. Iwao Kokushō , Hyakushō ikki no kenkyŭ [A Study of Peasant Uprisings] ( Tokyo , 1928 ). 5. ―, Hyakushō ikki no kenkyū, zuku hen [A Study of Peasant Uprisings, Continued] ( Tokyo , 1959 ). 6...

... in the fall of 1981 under the auspices of the Kuroda Institute. The volume consists of eight essays, beginning with the William LaFleur's record of the conversations at the conference and ending with Robert Bellah's essay entitled "The Meaning of Dogen Today." LaFleur intends his article to serve as a preface...

... (Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton, Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life [Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985]). Madsen brings in new light by using an old tool: Mary Douglas's cultural...

... by the editor) have wisely pruned Meiji particularist and universalist self-images jargon, with refreshingly straightforward and taken from the introductory passages of Robert N. lucid results. Moreover, a wide range of informa- Bellah's 1965 article on Watsuji Tetsuro. Sato tion and concepts are cogently...

... the past back across the rack of the present. Ogyu Sorai, who appears but briefly in part one, becomes the prominent figure. In an essay reconsidering his analysis in Tokugawa Religion, Bellah concedes Sorai a place beside Ishida Baigan in the intellectual universe that produced modern Japan. Baigan...

... theology”, see Bellah Robert , Tokugawa Religion ( Glencoe , 1957 ), 98 ff . 18 Matsumoto in Kokugaku …. , argues strongly that the nativist movement was an effort to promote greater harmony among the ruled, and that this was especially true of bakumatsu kokugakusha whose appeal...

... with the William LaFleur's record of the conversations at the conference and ending with Robert Bellah's essay entitled "The Meaning of Dogen Today." LaFleur intends his article to serve as a preface and introduction to the book. The conversations took place among several scholars in various disciplines...

... : Routledge . Bell , Daniel . 1960 . The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Bellah , Robert . 1985 . Tokugawa Religion: The Cultural Roots of Modern Japan . New York : Free Press . Bourdaghs...