Back in November during the AAR (the halcyon days when we could actually do conferences in person!), I sat down with Brett Esaki to talk about Faking Liberties for the Religious Studies Podcast. The episode dropped last week, and to my pleasant surprise it garnered responses from two scholars I deeply respect.
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I wrote this short sentence during one of the many post-review revisions of my forthcoming book Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan. I didn’t think much of it when I wrote these three words, but I soon recognized that the sentence neatly encapsulated the main points of the book. I’ll use this post to unpack what I meant.
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