Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan: Empire for God
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Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan explores how Japanese Protestants engaged with the unsettling changes that resulted from Japan's emergence as a world power in the early 20th century. Through this analysis, the book offers a new perspective on the intersection of religion and imperialism in modern Japan.
Emily Anderson reassesses religion as a critical site of negotiation between the state and its subjects as part of Japan's emergence as a modern nation-state and colonial empire. The book shows how religion, including its adherents and the state's attempts to determine acceptable belief, is a necessary subject of study for a nuanced understanding of modern Japanese history.
Explores the intersection of Japanese Protestantism and imperialism.
Brings a transnational approach to the study of empire and religion
Fills a gap in the historiography on modern Japan
Places the study of Christianity in modern Japan in a broader context
Introduction: All Roads Lead to Annaka: The Place of Imperial Christianity in Japan's Modern History
1. The Problem of Two Masters: The Imperial Rescript on Education and the Quandary of Japanese Christians
2. Fields Ready for Harvest: Russo-Japanese War as Holy War
3. Nation without Borders: Casting a Vision for a Transnational Church
4. Making Koreans Japanese: A Gospel for Japan's New Colonial Subjects
5. After the March First Movement: The “Korean Problem” Just Beyond Empire's Edge
6. Becoming a Small Country: The Imperial Countryside Imagined as the Kingdom of God
7. Following in Abraham's Footsteps: Building an Imperial Christian Utopia in Manchukuo
Bibliography
Index
Anderson uses sources such as personal notebooks and diaries to great effect ... A solidly researched and sympathetically written work of scholarship.
Anderson portrays a fascinating journey of interwoven lives and dreams on a sweeping scale ... manag[ing] to capture the often overlooked Christian dimension of imperial Japan.
[W]ell-researched and engaging ... [A] thought-provoking and interesting book that deserves a wide audience among both those interested in the intellectual and religious history of Meiji and Taisho Japan and specialists in colonial and imperial studies.
Anderson's research provides numerous insights into Christian history in Japan before 1945 … [She] has given us a well-researched and original investigation into a part of Japanese history too long neglected.
- Title: Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan: Empire for God
- Author: E. N. Anderson
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781472507686, 9781474282765, 1474282768, 1472507681
- Resource ID: LLS:9781472507686
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-09T10:04:01Z
Emily Anderson is Assistant Professor of History at Washington State University, USA.