Japanese Saints: Mormons in the Land of the Rising Sun
In the scholastic domain, the terms “Japanese” and “Mormon” have seldom, if ever, been used together. Instead, researchers and the general public alike continue to assume the Mormon Church, officially known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), remains solely a North American fai...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2009
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2009, Volume: 70, Issue: 3, Pages: 332-334 |
| Review of: | Japanese saints (Lanham, Md. [u.a.] : Lexington Books, 2007) (Carriere, Kathryn)
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| Summary: | In the scholastic domain, the terms “Japanese” and “Mormon” have seldom, if ever, been used together. Instead, researchers and the general public alike continue to assume the Mormon Church, officially known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), remains solely a North American faith tradition. More than 175 years after its inception, John Hoffmann seeks to dispel this myth by providing a contemporary portrait of the church through a thorough analysis of the Mormon community in Japan., Starting with historic contextualization of Japanese cultural and religious identities, Hoffmann astutely illustrates some of the shaping exigencies that have both positively and negatively affected how Christianity is phenomenologically and philosophically viewed by its people. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srp043 |