Essays on the Modern Japanese Church Christianity in Meiji Japan / Yamaji Aizan ; translated by Graham Squires ; with introductory essays by Graham Squires and A. Hamish Ion.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yamaji, Aizan, 1865-1917.

Contributor:

Ion, A. Hamish.

Squires, Graham, 1955-

Series:

Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies ; v.27

Standardized Title:

Gendai Nihon kyōkai shiron. English

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Religion.

Japan--Religion--1868-1912.

Japan.

Japan--Church history--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 196 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2020.

Ann Arbor, Mich : Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1999.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Introductory Essays

Yamaji Aizan and Essays on the History of the Modern Japanese Church

Essays and Meiji Protestant Christian History

Essays on the History of the Modern Japanese Church

1. Introduction

2. The Awakening of the Japanese People I

3. The Awakening of the Japanese People II

4. The Appeasement Policy of the Restoration Government

The Surprise of Ōkuma Shigenobu and the Beginning of the New Church

5. A Spiritual Revolution Comes from the Dark Side of the Age

6. On Nakamura Masanao

7. Yasui Sokken's An Exposition of Error I

8. Yasui Sokken's An Exposition of Error II

9. Yasui Sokken's An Exposition of Error III

10. Yasui Sokken's View of the Universe

11. On Niijima jō

12. Contrasting Social Phenomena

13. The Pledge of Mount Hanaoka

14. The First Reaction against Westernization- Fukuzawa Yukichi

15. Four Kinds of Thought and the Division of Talent

16. The French Faction-Political Rights

17. The English Faction-Empiricism

18. The Conservative Reaction and the Policy of the Government

19. The Results of the Conservative Policy

20. The Attitude of Christians

21. The University Movement and the Theory of Evolution and Agnosticism

22. Tokyo University against the Christian Church

23. The Rise of Westernism

24. The Kokumin no tomo and Jogaku zasshi

25. The Movement at Dōshisha College

26. Weaknesses in the Work of Niijima Jō

27. Theological Disputes I

28. Theological Disputes II

29. The Attitude of the Church toward the New Theology-Unfairness

30. The Conservative Reaction I

31. The Conservative Reaction II

32. Inoue Tetsujirō and the Christian Church

33. The Victory of the So-Called Statist Education

34. The Stagnation of the Church.

35. The Rise of the Business World and Christianity

36. Trends in the Churches Overseas and the Influence on the Japanese Church

37. We Should Not Be Pessimistic about the Future of the Church

38. The Christian Church of the Future

Bibliography

Index

About the Authors.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780939512935

0939512939

OCLC:

1184509470

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.22854

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access