Beyond the mushroom cloud [[electronic resource] ] : commemoration, religion, and responsibility after Hiroshima / / Yuki Miyamoto

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463608703321
• Autore: Miyamoto Yuki
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2012
• ISBN: 0-8232-4054-1; 0-8232-4931-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (251 p.)
• Collana: Bordering religions : concepts, conflicts, and conversations
• Disciplina: 940.54/2521954
• Soggetti: Atomic bomb victims - Religious life - Japan - Hiroshima-shi; Collective memory; Collective memory - Japan - Hiroshima-shi; Memorials - Japan - Hiroshima-shi; Nuclear warfare - Moral and ethical aspects; Peace movements - Japan - Hiroshima-shi; Responsibility - Social aspects; Responsibility - Social aspects - Japan - Hiroshima-shi; Electronic books.; Hiroshima-shi (Japan) History Bombardment, 1945 Moral and ethical aspects; Hiroshima-shi (Japan) Religious life and customs
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-225) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: The Ethics of Commemoration -- pt. 1. Commemoration -- Toward a Community of Memory -- Dialogue with the Dead : The Yasukuni Shinto Shrine and Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park -- pt. 2. Religious Interpretations -- Beyond Good and Evil : Koji Shigenobu and the True Pure Land Understanding of the Atomic Bombing -- Sacrificial Lambs : Nagai Takashi and the Roman Catholic Interpretation of the Bombing -- pt. 3. Responsibility -- Women in Atomic Bomb Narratives : Hagiography, Alterity, and Non-Nomological Ethics -- Postscript: After Too Many Mushroom Clouds -- Afterword.
• Sommario/riassunto: How should the horror of the atom bomb be remembered? In what ; ways might we remember so that the terrible experience of its use might be transformed into hope for a universal community of peace? In a fascinating case study in comparative religion, this book traces the struggle of the hibakusha, the survivors of the 1945 bombings, to make sense of their experiences through an ethic of Gnot retaliation, but reconciliation.G The predominant religious group in Hiroshima was True Pure Land Buddhism. From this sect emerged an account of the bombings in terms of karma, the misdeeds of humansGin the c