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Empire for God
Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan
Empire for God
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
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Product details

Published | Oct 23 2014 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 256 |
ISBN | 9781472511331 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Anderson uses sources such as personal notebooks and diaries to great effect ... A solidly researched and sympathetically written work of scholarship.
American Historical Review
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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.
English Historical Review
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[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.
Monumenta Nipponica
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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.
Japan Review

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