tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941071145333831148.post1684495110397526584..comments2011-03-10T17:16:16.312+01:00Comments on Political Theology Agenda: Recent articles on political theology (6)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288284466189569031noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941071145333831148.post-64815080101202047502011-03-10T17:11:24.657+01:002011-03-10T17:11:24.657+01:00Abstract and link for Ross Bender, "Changing ...Abstract and link for Ross Bender, "Changing the Calendar":<br /><br />In the aftermath of the suppression of the Tachibana Naramaro conspiracy of 757, the Empress Kōken (“Kōken/Shōtoku Tennō”) issued two edicts articulating the royal political theology of the time. The first edict was a senmyō, inscribed in the Shoku Nihongi in Old Japanese; the second was a choku in Chinese. A miraculous omen, the apparition of a silkworm cocoon with a message woven into its surface, was interpreted as the occasion for a change in the calendrical era name, or nengō. This article argues that the imperial edicts express a coherent ideology combining ideas from a cultic matrix in which may be discerned proto-Shinto, Buddhist, and Confucian elements.<br /><br />http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/publications/jjrs/pdf/846.pdfAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com