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In this chapter, I will examine how laws regarding shrines were organized, and how the State Shinto system was constructed, while confirming the shifts to the boundaries of State Shinto policy in colonial Korea. I will also consider what types of kami were installed in the shrines on the Korean peninsula, while also reconstructing—using the testimony of Shinto officials as evidence—the theology of State Shinto being used at the time colonial shrines were being built, to reveal the differences in investment between these Shinto officials and priests with that of the government’s representatives. Finally, I will look at the kinds of State Shinto “practices” that were implemented in educational and household settings, as well as the kinds of conflicts that occurred. We will reconfirm the fact that shrines remained the religious entities of foreigners until the end for Koreans.
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Kawase, T. (2017). State Shinto Policy in Colonial Korea. In: Anderson, E. (eds) Belief and Practice in Imperial Japan and Colonial Korea. Religion and Society in Asia Pacific. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1566-3_2
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