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Studies the complexity of religion in contemporary Japan; finds that religious practice is widespread, and attitudes toward religion are pragmatic; examines Buddhism, Shinto, Christianity, and the new religions; includes the importance of pacifism.

Yukichi Fukuzawa rose from low samurai origins to become one of the finest intellectuals and social thinkers of modern Japan. Through his best-selling works, he helped transform an isolated feudal nation into a full-fledged international force. In Outline of a Theory of Civilization, the author's most sustained philosophical text, Fukuzawa translates and adapts a range of Western works for a Japanese audience, establishing the social, cultural, and political avenues through which Japan could connect with other countries. Echoing the ideas of Western contemporaries such as Ralph Waldo Emerson

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