Essays on the Modern Japanese Church - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Essays on the Modern Japanese Church write by Aizan Yamaji. This book was released on 2021-01-19. Essays on the Modern Japanese Church available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Essays on the Modern Japanese Church (Gendai Nihon kyokai shiron), published in 1906, was the first Japanese-language history of Christianity in Meiji Japan. Yamaji Aizan’s firsthand account describes the reintroduction of Christianity to Japan—its development, rapid expansion, and decline—and its place in the social, political, and intellectual life of the Meiji period. Yamaji’s overall argument is that Christianity played a crucial role in shaping the growth and development of modern Japan. Yamaji was a strong opponent of the government-sponsored “emperor-system ideology,” and through his historical writing he tried to show how Japan had a tradition of tolerance and openness at a time when government-sponsored intellectuals were arguing for greater conformity and submissiveness to the state on the basis of Japanese “national character.” Essays is important not only in terms of religious history but also because it highlights broad trends in the history of Meiji Japan. Introductory chapters explore the significance of the work in terms of the life and thought of its author and its influence on subsequent interpretations of Meiji Christianity.
Christianity in Early Modern Japan
Christianity in Early Modern Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Christianity in Early Modern Japan write by Ikuo Higashibaba. This book was released on 2001-01-01. Christianity in Early Modern Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume provides a new history of Christianity in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Japan by depicting the world of ordinary Japanese Christians. It examines their religious expressions, as well as textual expositions given to them, within the context of Japanese religious culture.
Deus Destroyed
Deus Destroyed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Deus Destroyed write by George Elison. This book was released on 2020-03-17. Deus Destroyed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Japan’s “Christian Century” began in 1549 with the arrival of Jesuit missionaries led by Saint Francis Xavier, and ended in 1639 when the Tokugawa regime issued the final Sakoku Edict prohibiting all traffic with Catholic lands. “Sakoku”—national isolation—would for more than two centuries be the sum total of the regime’s approach to foreign affairs. This policy was accompanied by the persecution of Christians inside Japan, a course of action for which the missionaries and their zealots were in part responsible because of their dogmatic orthodoxy. The Christians insisted that “Deus” was owed supreme loyalty, while the Tokugawa critics insisted on the prior importance of performing one’s role within the secular order, and denounced the subversive doctrine whose First Commandment seemed to permit rebellion against the state. In discussing the collision of ideas and historical processes, George Elison explores the attitudes and procedures of the missionaries, describes the entanglements in politics that contributed heavily to their doom, and shows the many levels of the Japanese response to Christianity. Central to his book are translations of four seventeenth-century, anti-Christian polemical tracts."
Christianity as a Social Factor in Modern Japan
Christianity as a Social Factor in Modern Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Christianity as a Social Factor in Modern Japan write by Allen Klein Faust. This book was released on 1909. Christianity as a Social Factor in Modern Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan
Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan write by Emily Anderson. This book was released on 2014-12-18. Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan explores how Japanese Protestants engaged with the unsettling changes that resulted from Japan's emergence as a world power in the early 20th century. Through this analysis, the book offers a new perspective on the intersection of religion and imperialism in modern Japan. Emily Anderson reassesses religion as a critical site of negotiation between the state and its subjects as part of Japan's emergence as a modern nation-state and colonial empire. The book shows how religion, including its adherents and the state's attempts to determine acceptable belief, is a necessary subject of study for a nuanced understanding of modern Japanese history.
