03898nam 2200781Ia 450 991078846170332120200520144314.00-8232-4054-10-8232-4931-X(CKB)3240000000064883(EBL)3239599(OCoLC)923763718(SSID)ssj0000611400(PQKBManifestationID)11374548(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000611400(PQKBWorkID)10644899(PQKB)11462213(StDuBDS)EDZ0000092895(OCoLC)821725644(MdBmJHUP)muse16189(Au-PeEL)EBL3239599(CaPaEBR)ebr10539015(MiAaPQ)EBC3239599(EXLCZ)99324000000006488320110922d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBeyond the mushroom cloud[electronic resource] commemoration, religion, and responsibility after Hiroshima /Yuki Miyamoto1st ed.New York Fordham University Press20121 online resource (251 p.)Bordering religions : concepts, conflicts, and conversationsDescription based upon print version of record.0-8232-4050-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-225) and index.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.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 cBordering Religions: Concepts, Conflicts, and ConversationsAtomic bomb victimsReligious lifeJapanHiroshima-shiCollective memoryCase studiesCollective memoryJapanHiroshima-shiMemorialsJapanHiroshima-shiNuclear warfareMoral and ethical aspectsPeace movementsJapanHiroshima-shiResponsibilitySocial aspectsCase studiesResponsibilitySocial aspectsJapanHiroshima-shiHiroshima-shi (Japan)HistoryBombardment, 1945Moral and ethical aspectsHiroshima-shi (Japan)Religious life and customsAtomic bomb victimsReligious lifeCollective memoryCollective memoryMemorialsNuclear warfareMoral and ethical aspects.Peace movementsResponsibilitySocial aspectsResponsibilitySocial aspects940.54/2521954Miyamoto Yuki1569231MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788461703321Beyond the mushroom cloud3841972UNINA