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- Title
"A Missionary from the East to Western Pagans": Kagawa Toyohiko's 1936 U.S. Tour.
- Authors
SHAFFER, ROBERT
- Abstract
The 1936 U.S. tour by Japanese Protestant evangelist and social reformer Kagawa Toyohiko shows that the Christian missionary enterprise did not go in only one direction. Leading American Protestants welcomed Kagawa's aid in demonstrating Christianity's relevance during the Great Depression, hoping that his identification with the poor and his strategy of building economic cooperatives would resonate in the United States. The author characterizes the tour's organizers, including current and former American missionaries, as "critical internationalists," whose interactions with the wider world convinced them that they needed to learn from others and that their own society needed to change.
- Subjects
JAPAN; UNITED States; KAGAWA, Toyohiko, 1888-1960; JAPANESE Christian missions; SOCIAL reformers; JAPANESE people; PROTESTANTS; SOCIAL gospel; UNITED States history; ANTI-communist movements; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY; 20TH century United States history
- Publication
Journal of World History, 2013, Vol 24, Issue 3, p577
- ISSN
1045-6007
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/jwh.2013.0071