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A sentence from [this](https://www.jc.meisei-u.ac.jp/action/course/078.html)

> 「神道」が死を排除した **ところで** 成り立っているとすれば、その成立は古墳時代以前になかったことになります。

strikes me as a little different from how the collocation is normally used,
and amenable to being interpreted as a combination of two separate elements
ところ + で, where the ところで seems more like ことで, as indicating a method to do
something.

Though it is possible too to parse this ところで as a normal one expressing the
time relation between two actions (排除した→成立する), that's a somewhat inadequate
construal for me.

A search in BCCWJ 中納言 yielded results that are disparate, uncomparable from
the sentence above, so I'm not certain about my understanding of and guessing
on this sentence, including this ところで.
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nuances parsing particle-で
ところで as ところ + で
It means more literally _at the place where_ rather than temporal order. But
the _place_ is an abstract location/realm.

Literally speaking, the sentence says _Shinto 'works' at the place where death
is excluded_. More idiomatically, it says that Shinto's rituals/teachings etc.
assume absence of death or simply paraphrases that Shito does not treat death
as claimed in other parts.
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