Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan / / Garrett L. Washington.

Christians have never even 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...

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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 8 color, 30 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • (Re)Introducing Christianity in Modern Japan
  • Chapter One. Placing Japanese Protestant Churches in Tokyo
  • Chapter Two. Building the Japanese Protestant Church in Tokyo
  • Chapter Three. Preaching Self and World in the Capital
  • Chapter Four. Preaching the National Imaginary
  • Chapter Five. The Lay Lectern—Discourse beyond Religion at Church
  • Chapter Six. Church-Based Groups and Activism in the Church
  • Chapter Seven. From the Church into Society
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index