Hans Martin Krämer
Biographic Data
| ID | 109252 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hans Martin Krämer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hans Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Krämer |
| SIGNATURE | KRÄMER H M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heidelberg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4679-9714 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An anti-secularist pan-Asianist from Europe
The modern Japanese nation-state that was established from 1868 onwards was marked by a strong tendency towards the separation of state and religion: religions were protected as a private matter, but the public sphere was resolutely kept free of them. This was mainly done so that competing religions would not get in the way of state-sanctioned emperor worship. The latter, although imbued with elements from Shinto, was carefully defined as non-rel…
Faking Liberties
Reviewed by: Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan by Jolyon Baraka Thomas Hans Martin Krämer (bio) Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan. By Jolyon Baraka Thomas. University of Chicago Press, 2019. xiv, 356 pages. $105.00, cloth; $32.50, paper; $31.99, E-book. For some years now, the linguistic turn in religious studies has strongly affected the research agenda of writing on modern Japanese relig…
Religious Dynamics under the Impact of Imperialism and Colonialism
Shimaji Mokurai and the Reconception of Religion and the Secular in Modern Japan
Religion is at the heart of such ongoing political debates in Japan as the constitutionality of official government visits to Yasukuni Shrine, yet the very categories that frame these debates, namely religion and the secular, entered the Japanese language less than 150 years ago. To think of religion as a Western imposition, as something alien to Japanese reality, however, would be simplistic. As this in-depth study shows for the first time, reli…
Shimaji Mokurai and the Reconception of Religion and the Secular in Modern Japan
Religion is at the heart of ongoing political debates in Japan such as the constitutionality of official government visits to Yasukuni Shrine, yet the categories that frame these debates, religion and the secular, entered the Japanese language less than 150 years ago. This book shows that religion and the secular were critically reconceived in Japan by Japanese who had their own interests and traditions as well as those received in their encounte…
Pan-Asianism's Religious Undercurrents
Recent scholarship has highlighted the importance of Islam for prewar Japanese pan-Asianists. Yet, by considering Islam solely as a political factor, this strand of scholarship has largely overlooked the religious dimension of Japanese pan-Asianism. The existence of six different complete translations of the Qur'ān into Japanese, however, amply bespeaks a genuinely religious interest in Islam, an impression that is corroborated by a look at the s…
Japanese Discoveries of ‘Secularization’ Abroad and at Home, 1870–1945
In this chapter, the author focuses less on actual policies than on the conceptual matrix of a non-European society and, by stressing the historical semantics of secularization, to analyze secularization as a concept we use to structure historical and actual experience, rather than as an objectified and quantifiable phenomenon. The way he intends to do this is by highlighting a specific twentieth century application of the trope of secularization…
Gemeindehaushalt und Konjunktur
Historical Origins of a Welfare-State Regime
Although Japan since the 1920s witnessed unemployment, no system of unemployment insurance existed in Japan until after the end of World War II. Historians of welfare and labor have taken this to mean that the prewar Japanese government deviated from international standards of welfare policy, an argument that ties into notions of Japan as a liberal welfare state in the literature on varieties of capitalism and welfare-state regimes. The present p…
Beyond the Dark Valley
Widely regarded as a government instrument for the suppression of religious groups, the 1939/1940 Religious Organizations Law has so far been denied a nuanced treatment in historical literature. The complex nature of the law and its consequences can best be estimated when examining the case of the Christian churches, supposedly the foremost victims of suppression by the Japanese state, around 1940. The historical record shows that not all of the …
Not Befitting Our Divine Country
Reforms of their Own
Education reforms during the Allied Occupation of Japan (1945–1952) have traditionally been perceived as having been strongly shaped by U.S. American influence. The occupation bureaucracy, as the dominant element of a triangle of power together with the Ministry of Education and the Japanese Education Reform Committee, has been seen as the main author of the most important reforms. The influence of the U.S. side, however, hardly reached beyond th…
Neubeginn unter US-amerikanischer Besatzung?
Im Vergleich zu Westdeutschland scheint die US-amerikanische Besatzungspolitik in Japan nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg tiefgreifend und prägend gewesen zu sein. Insbesondere das japanische Bildungssystem wurde nach 1945 äußerlich amerikanisiert – schon ein Blick auf Entscheidungs- und Implementierungsprozesse von Reformen zeigt jedoch, dass der Einfluss der Besatzer weit geringer war als gemeinhin angenommen. Der Eindruck des Neuanfangs 1945 relativi…
Pan-Asianism's Religious Undercurrents
Recent scholarship has highlighted the importance of Islam for prewar Japanese pan-Asianists. Yet, by considering Islam solely as a political factor, this strand of scholarship has largely overlooked the religious dimension of Japanese pan-Asianism. The existence of six different complete translations of the Qur'ān into Japanese, however, amply bespeaks a genuinely religious interest in Islam, an impression that is corroborated by a look at the s…
Not Befitting Our Divine Country
Neubeginn unter US-amerikanischer Besatzung?
Im Vergleich zu Westdeutschland scheint die US-amerikanische Besatzungspolitik in Japan nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg tiefgreifend und prägend gewesen zu sein. Insbesondere das japanische Bildungssystem wurde nach 1945 äußerlich amerikanisiert – schon ein Blick auf Entscheidungs- und Implementierungsprozesse von Reformen zeigt jedoch, dass der Einfluss der Besatzer weit geringer war als gemeinhin angenommen. Der Eindruck des Neuanfangs 1945 relativi…
Reforms of their Own
Education reforms during the Allied Occupation of Japan (1945–1952) have traditionally been perceived as having been strongly shaped by U.S. American influence. The occupation bureaucracy, as the dominant element of a triangle of power together with the Ministry of Education and the Japanese Education Reform Committee, has been seen as the main author of the most important reforms. The influence of the U.S. side, however, hardly reached beyond th…
Not Befitting Our Divine Country
Beyond the Dark Valley
Widely regarded as a government instrument for the suppression of religious groups, the 1939/1940 Religious Organizations Law has so far been denied a nuanced treatment in historical literature. The complex nature of the law and its consequences can best be estimated when examining the case of the Christian churches, supposedly the foremost victims of suppression by the Japanese state, around 1940. The historical record shows that not all of the …
Japanese Discoveries of ‘Secularization’ Abroad and at Home, 1870–1945
In this chapter, the author focuses less on actual policies than on the conceptual matrix of a non-European society and, by stressing the historical semantics of secularization, to analyze secularization as a concept we use to structure historical and actual experience, rather than as an objectified and quantifiable phenomenon. The way he intends to do this is by highlighting a specific twentieth century application of the trope of secularization…
Gemeindehaushalt und Konjunktur
Historical Origins of a Welfare-State Regime
Although Japan since the 1920s witnessed unemployment, no system of unemployment insurance existed in Japan until after the end of World War II. Historians of welfare and labor have taken this to mean that the prewar Japanese government deviated from international standards of welfare policy, an argument that ties into notions of Japan as a liberal welfare state in the literature on varieties of capitalism and welfare-state regimes. The present p…
Pan-Asianism's Religious Undercurrents
Recent scholarship has highlighted the importance of Islam for prewar Japanese pan-Asianists. Yet, by considering Islam solely as a political factor, this strand of scholarship has largely overlooked the religious dimension of Japanese pan-Asianism. The existence of six different complete translations of the Qur'ān into Japanese, however, amply bespeaks a genuinely religious interest in Islam, an impression that is corroborated by a look at the s…
Shimaji Mokurai and the Reconception of Religion and the Secular in Modern Japan
Religion is at the heart of ongoing political debates in Japan such as the constitutionality of official government visits to Yasukuni Shrine, yet the categories that frame these debates, religion and the secular, entered the Japanese language less than 150 years ago. This book shows that religion and the secular were critically reconceived in Japan by Japanese who had their own interests and traditions as well as those received in their encounte…
Religious Dynamics under the Impact of Imperialism and Colonialism
Shimaji Mokurai and the Reconception of Religion and the Secular in Modern Japan
Religion is at the heart of such ongoing political debates in Japan as the constitutionality of official government visits to Yasukuni Shrine, yet the very categories that frame these debates, namely religion and the secular, entered the Japanese language less than 150 years ago. To think of religion as a Western imposition, as something alien to Japanese reality, however, would be simplistic. As this in-depth study shows for the first time, reli…
Faking Liberties
Reviewed by: Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan by Jolyon Baraka Thomas Hans Martin Krämer (bio) Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan. By Jolyon Baraka Thomas. University of Chicago Press, 2019. xiv, 356 pages. $105.00, cloth; $32.50, paper; $31.99, E-book. For some years now, the linguistic turn in religious studies has strongly affected the research agenda of writing on modern Japanese relig…
An anti-secularist pan-Asianist from Europe
The modern Japanese nation-state that was established from 1868 onwards was marked by a strong tendency towards the separation of state and religion: religions were protected as a private matter, but the public sphere was resolutely kept free of them. This was mainly done so that competing religions would not get in the way of state-sanctioned emperor worship. The latter, although imbued with elements from Shinto, was carefully defined as non-rel…
Political science (10 works) · Japanese History and Culture (9 works) · Law (9 works) · History (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Religious studies (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (4 works) · Secularism (3 works)