History of Japan Political sociology of "mystery" Searching for the thoughts of Muromachi

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Politics, economy, and society
/ With the Meiji Restoration, the wave of modernization and enlightenment is rushing, and the irrational superstition has been thoroughly denied and overcome, centering on medical care and education. In the eyes of those who seek to catch up and overtake, people in pre-modern societies thought that `` Shinto and Buddhas and ghosts would cause monsters as a harbinger of further evils, '' and it was just an irrational way of dealing with them. It was reflected as a typical example. (Omitted) Of course, the fact that such a modernist view of the Meiji era has various problems has been pointed out and overcome in all disciplines to date. However, from the point of view of ghosts, the fact that each ghost has been unraveled by technological advances, and that the unraveled phantoms have been incorporated into hobbies and entertainments, are nowadays. I guess we may not look much different from those of the Meiji era. In other words, those who believe in irrational things `` at a glance '' do not even have the rationality to choose from among them, and wondered that they had swallowed `` all '', Perhaps the society up to this point is regarded as "believing in religion and monsters = irrational", and contrasted with modern times. But mystery has been closely associated with the turbulent government center. But can society, from ancient times to the modern era, be consistently slurping ghosts in exactly the same way? Pre-modern societies may not be so static. Rather, the ghost is one of the most vivid cuts of each era. What were the issues facing society of each era, which could not be explained and feared? In the context of that matter, what thoughts and practices were taken toward the center of the administration, whether to "spoof" the ghost or to "study whether it should be accepted" and "to cope" with the severe. What? … The movements and influences between the administration, the shrines, the society, and the three parties vary in such thoughts and practices. Taking the mystery as a starting point, we can dynamically see the thinking of people across politics, economy and culture. (From "Introduction")