Christian Converts And Social Protests In Meiji Japan
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Christian Converts And Social Protests In Meiji Japan
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Author : Irwin Scheiner
language : en
Publisher: U of M Center For Japanese Studies
Release Date : 2002-01-01
Christian Converts And Social Protests In Meiji Japan written by Irwin Scheiner and has been published by U of M Center For Japanese Studies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-01 with History categories.
Nowhere has there been a discussion of the confusion necessarily generated by the rapidity of the change or of the agony created in the lives of many whose attitudes, expectations, and even success depended on the continuance of now abolished institutions. Historians have ignored the settled conditions of most samurai and instead concentrated on the study of the minority of activist samurai leaders who, with the backing of only a few Han (feudal domains) sought to overthrow the old order and whose success in doing so has made the study of the modernization of Japan the prime concern of historians. The history of the Meiji period may have been an overall political and industrial success story, but for a fuller understanding of the conditions of that success it is also necessary to understand "what it was really like" for the members of the old elite to be estranged from the proponents of revolution and what many members did to assure their own social and psychological position in a world they had not expected. In this book the author attempts to show that the impact of the Meiji Restoration destroyed the meaningfulness of the Confucian doctrine for these declasse samurai. Through Christianity, the samurai attempted to revive their status in society by finding a doctrine that offered a meaningful path to power. But in doing so, they had to accept a new theory of social relations. Ultimately, as the convert's understanding of society became totally informed by the Christian doctrine, they accepted a transcendent authority that brought them into conflict with society about them. Therefore, to understand the development of a Christian opposition in Meiji society we must begin with the conversion experience itself. [intro]
Christian Converts And Social Protest In Meiji Japan
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Author : Irwin Scheiner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Christian Converts And Social Protest In Meiji Japan written by Irwin Scheiner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Christianity categories.
Transnational Japan As History
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Author : Pedro Iacobelli
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-02-11
Transnational Japan As History written by Pedro Iacobelli and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-11 with History categories.
This volume looks at the history of Japan from a transnational perspective. It brings to the fore the interconnectedness of Japan's history with the wider Asian-Pacific region and the world. This interconnectedness is examined in the volume through the themes of empire, migration, and social movements.
Essays On The Modern Japanese Church
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Author : Aizan Yamaji
language : en
Publisher: U of M Center For Japanese Studies
Release Date : 2021-01-19
Essays On The Modern Japanese Church written by Aizan Yamaji and has been published by U of M Center For Japanese Studies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-19 with History categories.
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.
Japanese Christians And Society
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Author : Alan M. Suggate
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers
Release Date : 1996
Japanese Christians And Society written by Alan M. Suggate and has been published by Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This book tells of the struggles of modern Japanese Christians for justice within Japan and in its relations with other peoples. Drawing on many disciplines, it focusses centrally on the pervasive Emperor system and shows how the ruling elite has persistently tried to revive the symbols of the pre-war era when Shinto and the state were fused. It considers the Japanese workforce, especially those who are disadvantaged: women, day labourers and Asian migrant workers; the environment and victims of pollution; resident aliens and Japanese citizens who suffer discrimination; and the search for justice and peace, especially with other Asians. The book shows how in grappling with these issues Japanese Christians are forging their own social theology, which in turn challenges the West to self-criticism and dialogue."
Asian Survey
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Asian Survey written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Asia categories.
Church Space And The Capital In Prewar Japan
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Author : Garrett L. Washington
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2022-01-31
Church Space And The Capital In Prewar Japan written by Garrett L. Washington and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-31 with History categories.
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.
On The Margins Of Japanese Society
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Author : Carolyn S. Stevens
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-09-02
On The Margins Of Japanese Society written by Carolyn S. Stevens and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-02 with Social Science categories.
The popular perception of Japanese society is that it possesses a homogeneity and cultural conformity unlike anything to be found in the West. In fact Japan has its own underclass living outside the mainstream in economic circumstances that are radically different to the more usual perception of a wealthy and sucessful society. Carolyn S. Stevens has produced a new study that intimately explores the lives of Japan's social outcasts as well as those volunteers who seek to help them and as a consequence become socially marginalized themselves.
Christianity And Japan
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Author : Stuart D. B. Picken
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Christianity And Japan written by Stuart D. B. Picken and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Religion categories.
Christianity and Asian civilization - Religion and society in Japan - Nagasaki : the sea and the cross - Persecution and the hidden Christians - Christian missions - Mainstream churches.
Understanding Japan Through The Eyes Of Christian Faith Third Edition
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Author : Lee Samuel
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2009-10
Understanding Japan Through The Eyes Of Christian Faith Third Edition written by Lee Samuel and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10 with categories.
Lee skillfully examines various facets of the Japanese society and culture looking for answers of why Christianity is not widely accepted and practiced in Japan. He comes up with strategies and suggestions of how Christianity should approach Japan and suggests that Christianity should be reintroduced there.