Toward a Modern Belief: Modernist Protestantism and Problems of National Religion in Meiji Japan
In this article, I discuss the significance of religious liberalism and reformism of Meiji Protestantism at the turn of the twentieth century. The period, I argue, is crucial to understanding Japanese Protestantism as modernist. The survival and expansion of Christianity and its educational institut...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nanzan Institute
[2007]
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Japanese journal of religious studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 34, Issue: 1, Pages: 151-175 |
| Further subjects: | B
Unitarianism
B Protestant Ethics B Buddhism B Morality B Christian missionaries B Protestant Theology B Liberalism |
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| Summary: | In this article, I discuss the significance of religious liberalism and reformism of Meiji Protestantism at the turn of the twentieth century. The period, I argue, is crucial to understanding Japanese Protestantism as modernist. The survival and expansion of Christianity and its educational institutions were at stake during the strong nationalist and imperialist consensus in the aftermath of the Sino-Japanese war. This essay focuses on the "intellectual" impulses of modernist Protestants, their resonance with liberal theology, and their collaboration with emerging social and cultural sciences, especially comparative studies of religion. As I demonstrate here, the interest in these two realms of knowledge was widely shared among educated elites beyond Protestant circles, contributing to Japanese Protestants' overall growth and wellbeing in the early twentieth century. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Japanese journal of religious studies
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