Church Space and the Capital in Prewar 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 Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan write by Garrett L. Washington. This book was released on 2022-01-31. Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Christians have never constituted one percent of Japan’s population, yet Christianity had a disproportionately large influence on Japan’s social, intellectual, and political development. This happened despite the Tokugawa shogunate’s successful efforts to criminalize Christianity and even after the Meiji government took measures to limit its influence. From journalism and literature, to medicine, education, and politics, the mark of Protestant Japanese is indelible. Herein lies the conundrum that has interested scholars for decades. How did Christianity overcome the ideological legacies of its past in Japan? How did Protestantism distinguish itself from the other options in the religious landscape like Buddhism and New Religions? And how did the religious movement’s social relevance and activism persist despite the government’s measures to weaken the relationship between private religion and secular social life in Japan? In Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan, Garrett L. Washington responds to these questions with a spatially explicit study on the influence of the Protestant church in imperial Japan. He examines the physical and social spaces that Tokyo’s largest Japanese-led congregations cultivated between 1879 and 1923 and their broader social ties. These churches developed alongside, and competed with, the locational, architectural, and social spaces of Buddhism, Shinto, and New Religions. Their success depended on their pastors’ decisions about location and relocation, those men’s conceptualizations of the new imperial capital and aspirations for Japan, and the Western-style buildings they commissioned. Japanese pastors and laypersons grappled with Christianity’s relationships to national identity, political ideology, women’s rights, Japanese imperialism, and modernity; church-based group activities aimed to raise social awareness and improve society. Further, it was largely through attendees’ externalized ideals and networks developed at church but expressed in their public lives outside the church that Protestant Christianity exerted such a visible influence on modern Japanese society. Church Space offers answers to longstanding questions about Protestant Christianity’s reputation and influence by using a new space-centered perspective to focus on Japanese agency in the religion’s metamorphosis and social impact, adding a fresh narrative of cultural imperialism.
Buddhism and Modernity
Buddhism and Modernity - 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 Buddhism and Modernity write by Orion Klautau. This book was released on 2021-03-31. Buddhism and Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Japan was the first Asian nation to face the full impact of modernity. Like the rest of Japanese society, Buddhist institutions, individuals, and thought were drawn into the dynamics of confronting the modern age. Japanese Buddhism had to face multiple challenges, but it also contributed to modern Japanese society in numerous ways. Buddhism and Modernity: Sources from Nineteenth-Century Japan makes accessible the voices of Japanese Buddhists during the early phase of high modernity. The volume offers original translations of key texts—many available for the first time in English—by central actors in Japan’s transition to the modern era, including the works of Inoue Enryō, Gesshō, Hara Tanzan, Shimaji Mokurai, Kiyozawa Manshi, Murakami Senshō, Tanaka Chigaku, and Shaku Sōen. All of these writers are well recognized by Buddhist studies scholars and Japanese historians but have drawn little attention elsewhere; this stands in marked contrast to the reception of Japanese Buddhism since D. T. Suzuki, the towering figure of Japanese Zen in the first half of the twentieth century. The present book fills the chronological gap between the premodern era and the twentieth century by focusing on the crucial transition period of the nineteenth century. Issues central to the interaction of Japanese Buddhism with modernity inform the five major parts of the work: sectarian reform, the nation, science and philosophy, social reform, and Japan and Asia. Throughout the chapters, the globally entangled dimension—both in relation to the West, especially the direct and indirect impact of Christianity, and to Buddhist Asia—is of great importance. The Introduction emphasizes not only how Japanese Buddhism was part of a broader, globally shared reaction of religions to the specific challenges of modernity, but also goes into great detail in laying out the specifics of the Japanese case.
The Japan Mission of the American Church
The Japan Mission of the American 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 The Japan Mission of the American Church write by Robert Wells Andrews. This book was released on 1908. The Japan Mission of the American Church available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Church in the Capital of Japan
A Church in the Capital of 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 A Church in the Capital of Japan write by Rudolf Bolling Teusler. This book was released on 1904. A Church in the Capital of Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Church of Christ in Japan
The Church of Christ in 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 The Church of Christ in Japan write by Philadelphia the Westminster Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18. The Church of Christ in Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the history of Christianity in Japan, from the arrival of the first Christian missionaries in the 16th century to the present day. With a focus on the Presbyterian Church in Japan, The Church of Christ in Japan is an important resource for anyone interested in the history of Christianity in Asia. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
