Author: Johannes LauresPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The Catholic Church in Japan
Author: Johannes LauresPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The Catholic Church in Japan; a Short History
Author: John LauresThe Catholic Church in Japan
Author: Johannes LauresPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Catholic Church in Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A History of the Catholic Church in Japan, from Its Beginnings to the Early Meiji Era (1549-1873)
Author: Jozef JennesThe Catholic Church in Japan
Author: J. LauresChurch Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan
Author: Garrett L. WashingtonPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824891724
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
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.
Xavier's Legacies
Author: Kevin M. DoakPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774820241
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Japan has had three Catholic prime ministers, and its current empress was raised and educated in the faith. How did a non-Christian nation come to foster more Catholic leaders than the United States, particularly when Protestantism is said to define Christianity in Japan and Catholicism is believed to be but a fleeting element of Japan's so-called Christian century? This volume reveals that, far from being a relic of the past something brought to Japan by missionaries and then forgotten Catholicism offered, and continues to provide, an authentic and alternative way for Japanese believers to maintain "tradition" and negotiate modernity.
The Catholic Church in Japan Since 1859
Author: Joseph Leonard van HeckenPublisher:
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Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Author: Johannes Laures
Author: