Stock ID #179251 Celebrity Gods. New Religions, Media, and Authority in Occupied Japan. BENJAMIN DORMAN.

Celebrity Gods. New Religions, Media, and Authority in Occupied Japan.

Honolulu. University of Hawai'i Press. 2012. Stock ID #179251

Black and white photographic illustrations, viii + 296pp, notes, bibliography, index, dustjacket, a very good hardback copy.

Celebrity Gods explores the interaction of new religions and the media in postwar Japan. It focuses on the leaders and founders (kyoso) of Jiu and Tensho Kotai Jingu Kyo, two new religions of Japan's immediate postwar period that received substantial press attention.

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